A still from Spectre

The spate of controversies surrounding a minute-long kissing scene in Daniel Craig's 2015 film Spectre, which Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani clipped to half its length, led to an uproar among industry folk. That the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) was acting like a censoring body, instead of a certifying one was affecting the creative freedom of artistes, argued filmmakers.