‘Heroine being seduced by the villain’: Vikram Bhatt explains why his 2001 hit ‘Kasoor’ would have been blocked by the CBFC in the 70s and 80s

Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt believes Indian audiences’ growing maturity, fueled by globalization and societal shifts since the early 2000s, has led to increased leniency from the CBFC. He noted that complex themes, like those in his 2001 film ‘Kasoor,’ which explored moral ambiguity, would have faced significant censorship in earlier decades.