Suresh Gopi name removed from Empuran re-censored version; 27 cuts details and censor board members

We learn that the name of Union Minister Suresh Gopi and IRS officer Jyithish Mohan has been edited out of Thanks section credit list of Empuran in re-censoring. Gopi implied that the makers were doing the cuts voluntarily and aim was to get publicity for the film. A conversation in which the Central party leader says that he hates Kerala for it ‘s greenery implying the green colour associated with Muslim religion has been edited out. The four censor board members who had given the Empuran clearance figure in the revised censor certificate. The background of these members show that they are top level figures in BJP- ABVP ranks. A post from Mohanty with Mint cover says that purification has to happen with and later the Jihadis.

Nanda Nandan Mohanty

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Members who said go ahead for Emburans release in Censor board
1. *Swaroopa Kartha*: Wife of an employee at the Kerala Governor's residence.
2. *Roshni Das*: Wife of the former General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
3. *G.M. Mahesh*: Former Secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
4. *Manju Hassan*: BJP Councilor from Nedumangad.
Let's clean the garbage inside the house (Bjp), before cleaning up the Jihadi groups..

The Hindu reports that 24 cuts were made and from April 2 , digital streaming Qube will stream the new recensored. Here are the cuts : As per the re-censor certificate, one of the major changes is in the name of the character Balraj, alias Baba Bajrangi, the antagonist who leads a mob, which appears to be a reference to Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi who was sentenced to life imprisonment for masterminding the Naroda Patiya massacre as part of the Gujarat pogrom of 2002. The character has been renamed Baldev in the re-edited version. The display card mentioning the period of events as ‘India 2002’ has been changed to ‘a few years ago’. The visuals of vehicles passing in front of a religious structure, violence against women and visuals of dead bodies during the riot scenes in the film have also been removed. A conversation between a young Zayed Masood (played by the director of the film Prithviraj Sukumaran) and his father Masood during the riots has been removed. References to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is shown as being used by the ruling party against political opponents, also got the scissors. Audio mute has also been employed to cut out any mention of NIA.