Bloodshed on Indian screens has never been louder. With Animal, Pushpa, Chaava and now Dhurandhar pushing violent imagery to a new extreme, the debate whether India needs an R-rating has resurfaced

xWhile the current chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), Prasoon Joshi, declined to comment, former chairperson Pahlaj Nihalani was vocal about the rising brutality on screen. “I have said this before: it is the violence that needs to be curbed, not the sex. Young audiences are bored with the clumsy skin show in our films. It is the violence that is becoming more inventive — and stomach churning for many — though some people seem to enjoy watching bodies being impaled and heads and limbs being chopped off.”

Does Nihalani believe violence in Indian cinema is getting out

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