The scissors are getting sharper. This week, Indian cinema's long-simmering standoff with the Central Board of Film Certification exploded on multiple fronts — Diljit Dosanjh's Satluj vanished from ZEE5 in India within 48 hours of release, CM Vijay's Jana Nayagan finally crawled out of a seven-month certification battle with an 'A' rating, and data reveals the board has demanded over 100,000 modifications across 18,000 films since 2017. Not a week — a system.

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