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India's Daughter and 10 other films that are still banned in India

On 5 August, the Delhi High Court rejected a batch of pleas to lift the ban on the BBC documentary India\'s Daughter, which was based on the horrific 16 December 2012 Delhi gangrape.

The documentary was produced by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin and telecast by the BBC.

The film was scheduled to be broadcast on International Women\'s Day. However, after it was revealed that the filmmakers had interviewed one of the rapists while he was being held in the Tihar jail, the Indian police obtained a court stay order prohibiting the broadcast.

BBC complied with the orders and did not release the film in India. The film, which was uploaded on YouTube, went viral with people sharing the documentary heavily on social media. Director Udwin also invited backlash from the Indian government. Eventually, the documentary film was also blocked from YouTube.

However, this is not the first film who has drawn the government\'s ire. There are a quite number of films that still remains banned in India. Here are 10 such films: