You be the judge: Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani's work broken down in numbers

• He was awarded the office of the Central Board Of Film Certification on 19 January, 2015.

• Ever since he became the head of CBFC, he has been targeted for promoting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

• Off late, he has been facing public ire for attaching his music video 'Mera Desh Hai Mahaan' with the theatrical prints of Salman Khan's Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. The video ran during the interval of the film in many theatres to clueless audiences.

films were cleared by the board at the examining stage itself.

• The rest 50 were sent to the examining committee for review.

• This included James Bond's 24th film Spectre, starring Daniel Craig, Monica Belucci and Lea Seydoux.

is the number of the films that Nihalani has watched himself.

• It should be noted that the recently released Bond film in India, Spectre, is not included in the list of films watched by Nihalani.

• While talking to a news channel, the chief himself revealed that he didn't watch even a single scene from Spectre and yet he decided to cut the kissing scenes in the film by as much as 50 per cent (20 seconds).

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out of those 50 films were further sent to the FCAT (Film Certification Appellate Tribunal)

• FCAT didn't pass even one film out of the four.

• Justifying their workings, the board has said that the number of the films passed under the tenure of Nihalani is same as the number of the films passed by the UPA appointed committee.

• It would be interesting to know that CBFC functions as according to the rules and regulations, laid down in the 1952 Cinematograph Act. And it's been months now that the board has been working out ways to bring amendments in the act.