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A<\/span>day after children\u2019s movie <\/p>The Jungle Book <\/em>was changed from U\/A to\u00a0A, highly-placed sources revealed to Arr\u00e9\u00a0on Thursday<\/span> the exact process behind reviewing and certifying movies. Known simply as the \u201cacid\u201d test, it involves Censor Board of Film Certification chief Pahlaj Nihalani, dropping acid, and taking a swig of Black Label, before the screening.\n\nAccording to the report, which is an illegible scrawl of stick figures of\u00a0animals, \u201ctiger is scary\u201d, and \u201cdaravna bandar\u201d. It goes on to add \u201caaaaaah\u00a0saaap\u201d, a side effect, no doubt, of the acid dropped before\u00a0reviewing the film.\n\nThe CBFC move to grant the movie an A\u00a0certificate comes in the backdrop of mass protests across the\u00a0country by critics, fans, and animals, who have argued that the earlier U\/A\u00a0certification \u201cwas inadequate\u201d.\n\nThe Jungle Book<\/em> had come to India with a PG rating by the Motion Picture\u00a0Association of America, the US cinematic rating office, owing to \u201cscary\u00a0action\u201d sequences and scenes of \u201cperil\u201d.\n\nThe report, a copy of which is in possession with Arr\u00e9, goes on to add that Mowgli, the lead character, is\u00a0too \u201cscantily clad\u201d through the film. It also says the character Kaa, a python voiced by Scarlett Johansson, is too\u00a0\u201cphallic\u201d and would lead to \u201cunsanskari\u201d urges. The censor board report also went on to recommend that the title song — \u201cChaddi Pehen Ke Phool Khila Hai\u201d be dropped for obscenity,\u00a0because of\u00a0the word \u201cchaddi\u201d.\n\nWhen contacted Nihalani’s secretary said, \u201cHe needs to mellow out.\u201d\n\nDespite repeated attempts to contact Kipling via a\u00a0psychic medium, he simply turned in his grave and declined to comment.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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