“I was looking forward to it enormously”, said Brosnan, who played Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002.
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“Two kissing scenes have been reduced by a few seconds”, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity, adding that two swear words had also been deleted. Oberhauser was apparently the head honcho of all the villains in the previous Craig Bond films (“Casino Royale”, “Quantum of Solace”, “Skyfall”), but doesn’t feel like it. Oberhauser is lame and frankly, a poor villain who spends more time intimidating people than showing us why he’s so scary.
On Twitter, scores of Indians used the satirical hashtag #SanskariJamesBond, or “traditional James Bond” to ridicule the cuts.
The decision to reduce the length of the kissing scenes was trending on social media Thursday as Indians mocked the prudishness of film certification authorities.
Board member Ashoke Pandit, who has had differences with Nihlani, said the CBFC chief has always “functioned on his own accord”.
Also up for release today is the feature film X: Past Is Present, a collaboration between 11 filmmakers – Abhinav Shiv Tiwari, Anu Menon, Hemant Gaba, Nalan Kumarasamy, Pratim D Gupta, Qaushiq Mukherjee, Raja Sen, Rajshree Ojha, Sandeep Mohan, Sudhish Kamath and Suparn Verma.
It has the usual James Bond flavour of vehicle chases, helicopter scenes, train fights and there is nothing more you wait for or look forward to. With #sanskariJamesBond, twitter clients had a field day deriding the Censor Board.
At 50, Belluci is the oldest “Bond girl”. “What’s Bond doing?” “Pooja & Aarti” “Oh!”
A cryptic message from the past sends James Bond on a rogue mission to Mexico City and eventually Rome, where he meets Lucia Sciarra, the attractive and forbidden widow of an infamous criminal.
Director Sam Mendes maintains a heavy, gritty, operatic aesthetic, but brings camp elements and physical comedy back, resulting in tonal mismatch to the 24th Chapter of the “James Bond” series, making it one of the dullest, least engaging and most perfunctory action films of the year.
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“We have to be careful with films that get U/A certificate because they can be shown on TV and to all audiences following parental guidance”.
