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|description_of_content="'Rockstar' is the journey of a musician who leaves his happy life to achieve success as a singer." [http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/bollywood-film-rockstar-disappoints-tibetan-youth/] In one scene, a free Tibet flag is waved.
|description_of_content="'Rockstar' is the journey of a musician who leaves his happy life to achieve success as a singer." [http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/bollywood-film-rockstar-disappoints-tibetan-youth/] In one scene, a free Tibet flag is waved.
|description_of_incident=The Indian censor board put pressure on the film's creators to remove content from the film which referenced the exiled Tibetan government that is housed in Dharamsala, a location where the film was shot.  
|description_of_incident=The Indian censor board put pressure on the film's creators to remove content from the film which referenced the exiled Tibetan government that is housed in Dharamsala, a location where the film was shot.
|description_of_result=The film was released, but in the scene which contains a free Tibet flag, the flag was blurred.
|description_of_result=The film was released, but in the scene which contains a free Tibet flag, the flag was blurred.
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Revision as of 17:32, 6 June 2012

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Artist:

Year: 2011

Date of Action: November 2011

Region: Asia

Location: India

Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion

Medium: Film/Video "Film/Video" is not in the list (Commercial Advertising, Dance, Design, Installation, Journalism, Literature, Mixed Media, Music, Online, Painting, ...) of allowed values for the "Has medium" property.

Confronting Bodies: Indian censor board

Description of Artwork: "'Rockstar' is the journey of a musician who leaves his happy life to achieve success as a singer." [1] In one scene, a free Tibet flag is waved.

The Incident: The Indian censor board put pressure on the film's creators to remove content from the film which referenced the exiled Tibetan government that is housed in Dharamsala, a location where the film was shot.

Results of Incident: The film was released, but in the scene which contains a free Tibet flag, the flag was blurred.

Source:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Censor-s-decision-to-blur-Tibet-flag-angers-Tibetans/Article1-767399.aspx



Other swear words were also edited from the movie's soundtrack by the censor board, including a Hindi expletive. [2] This kind of censorship is far more common in Indian films, however.