Even by laughable measures of India’s censor board — that ought to be a joke among functional democracies — the way you watch Olivia Wilde’s The Invite in local theatres is bizarre still.

There’s a static scroll on the screen, the size of subtitles, all through the movie, that warns: Smoking/drugs/alcohol is injurious to health. Only, there’s max a minute in the movie, when the characters are actually consuming drugs/alcohol.