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A ‘White Lotus’ Scene Was Censored in India, but It’s Not the One You Might Think
A scene from 'The White Lotus' was censored in India, but it's not the one you might think.
It’s actually the opening scene that was altered, in which Belinda’s son Zion (Nicholas Duvernay) wades into a pond after hearing gunshots at the hotel. Streamers in India have been erring on the side of caution ever since Amazon Prime Video was forced to apologize for its Indian original series “ Tandav,” some parts of which had offended members of the ruling Hindu nationalist dispensation. Last month, celebrated Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur posted on X that his 1994 masterpiece “Bandit Queen” was “unrecognizable from my film.” “Someone has cut it beyond recognition,” he wrote.
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