List_of_films_banned_in_Pakistan

List of films banned in Pakistan

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Pakistan started banning films in 1962, with restrictions tightened in 1979 when Muhammad Zia ul-Haq implemented an Islamization agenda and an even stricter censorship code.^[1] A ban on Indian films and media (which had been in place since 1965 but was not always strictly enforced) was lifted in 2008, with the compromise that cinemas in Pakistan must equally share screening time between Indian and Pakistani films, but was later enforced again in late 2016.^[2]^[3]

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Date	Movie Name	Country	Film Industry	The Reason Banned
2010	Lahore		Bollywood	Banned as the censor board objected to some dialogues and scenes in the film.^[5]
2010	Tere Bin Laden		Bollywood	Banned for fear that the title could be misconstrued by Islamist extremists as a reason to attack.^[6]^[7]

Date	Movie Name	Film Industry	The Reason Banned
2011	Slackistan	Independent	Director refused to make cuts requested by the Central Board of Film Censors.
2011	The Dirty Picture	Bollywood	Banned by authorities.^[8] However, it was later cleared for release only a week after the Indian premiere.^[9]
2011	Delhi Belly	Bollywood	Not allowed to be screened by the censor board.^[10]

Date	Movie Name	Film Industry	The Reason Banned
2012	Ek Tha Tiger	Bollywood	It was not released in Pakistan, due to concerns over the portrayal of Pakistan in the film.^[11]^[12]
2012	Khiladi 786	Bollywood	Renamed as Khiladi for release^[13] but promos and ads of the film were banned in Pakistan.^[14]
2012	Agent Vinod	Bollywood	For controversial references to the Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.^[15]

Date	Movie Name	Film Industry	The Reason Banned
2013	Bhaag Milkha Bhaag	Bollywood	Banned because it depicts Pakistan Sports Authorities using unfair means. It depicts the country in a wrong way.^[16]
2013	Raanjhanaa	Bollywood	Banned because the film portrays an image of a Muslim girl (played by Sonam Kapoor) falling in love with a Hindu boy and having an affair with him.^[17]
2013	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Hollywood	Banned due to the film's depiction of Pakistan as an unstable state and the fictional portrayal of a "foreign invasion of Pakistan’s nuclear installations".^[18]

Date	Movie Name	Film Industry	The Reason Banned
2014	Children of War	Bollywood	Banned for its portrayal of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War contrary to Pakistan's view.^[19]
2014	Haider	Bollywood	Banned as it depicts the Kashmir insurgency, a sensitive issue in the country.^[20]
2014	Noah	Hollywood	Banned due to the portrayal of Noah by an actor.^[21]

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Date	Movie Name	Film Industry	The Reason Banned
2015	Calendar Girls	Bollywood	Banned by Pakistan due to objections to one of the dialogues in the film.^[22]^[23]
2015	Phantom	Bollywood	Demanded to be banned by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed's Jamaat-ud-Dawa Archived 2015-08-20 at the Wayback Machine.^[24] Phantom is about 26/11 attacks based on the book Mumbai Avengers by Hussain Zaidi.^[25] The Lahore High Court banned the movie on 20 August 2015^[26] as the federal government wanted the petition by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed to be dismissed due to its uselessness and the government doesn't want to be involved unnecessarily because no one in Pakistan asked for NOC to screen the film.^[27]^[28] LHC judge Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan asked the government what it could do to stop the movie CDs from being sold in the market after the ban.^[29]
2015	Baby	Bollywood	A Bollywood film based on Terrorism was banned in Pakistan.^[30]
2015	Bangistan	Bollywood	A film about two suicide bombers banned by Pakistan's Central Board of Film Censors.^[31]

Date	Movie Name	Film Industry	The Reason Banned
2016	Dishoom	Bollywood	Banned because the movie talks about an Indian cricketer getting kidnapped before an India and Pakistan match and that caused the country to think it is against Pakistan.^[32]
2016	Udta Punjab	Bollywood	Banned due to use of abusive language.^[33]
2016	Shivaay	Bollywood	Banned because of India-Pakistan border conflict.^[34]
2016	Ae Dil Hai Mushkil	Bollywood	Banned because of India-Pakistan border conflict.^[35]^[36]
2016	Neerja	Bollywood	Banned for allegedly showing the country in a bad light, a fact denied by Sonam Kapoor, who portrays slain flight attendant Neerja Bhanot in the film.^[37]
2016	Ambarsariya	Pollywood	Banned due to direct references to Indian intelligence agency RAW inside the movie.^[38]

Date	Movie Name	Film Industry	The Reason Banned
2017	Viceroy's House	British	Banned for allegedly misrepresenting Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Founder Of Pakistan).
2017	Tubelight	Bollywood	Banned to prevent hampering the release of local films^[39]
2017	Tiger Zinda Hai	Bollywood	The film was not given a No Objection Certificate by the Central Board of Film Censors in Pakistan, stating the reason as "The image of Pakistan and its law enforcement agencies" has been compromised.^[40]^[41]
2017	Dangal	Bollywood	Banned when actor-producer Aamir Khan refused the Pakistan Censor Board's demand to remove scenes with the Indian National Flag and Indian National Anthem.^[42]
2017	Naam Shabana	Bollywood	Banned because it portrays Pakistan in "bad taste".^[43]
2017	Jolly LLB 2	Bollywood	Banned because the film makes references to the Kashmir issue.^[44]
2017	Raees	Bollywood	Banned due to its "objectionable" content, as "the content undermines Islam, and a specific religious sect, (It also) portrays some Muslims as criminals, wanted persons, and terrorists".^[45]

Date	Movie Name	Film Industry	The Reason Banned
2018	Pad Man	Bollywood	The Central Board of Film Censors, Pakistan, refused to give a No Objection Certificate to the film and said, "we cannot allow a film whose name, subject, and story are not acceptable yet in our society." They disallowed the Pakistani film distributors IMGC and HKC to purchase the film rights and stated that they were "ruining Islamic traditions, history, and culture."^[46]^[47]^[48]
2018	Pari	Bollywood	Promotes black magic.
2018	Raazi	Bollywood	Showed an intelligence agent who spied on Pakistan for India.
2018	Gold	Bollywood	For fears regarding the depiction of the 1947 partition.^[49]
2018	Veere Di Wedding	Bollywood	For depicting obscenity and vulgar dialogues by female characters.
2018	Mulk	Bollywood	The movie shows an Indian Muslim family accused of treason and ties with the Pakistanis.^[50]
2018	Aiyaary	Bollywood	Banned for portraying Pakistan in a negative light.^[51]
2018	Race 3	Bollywood	Ban imposed so that four big banner Pakistani films and other smaller regional language releases on Eid do good business without competition from Bollywood movies.^[52]
2018	Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran	Bollywood	Banned for references to Pakistan's nuclear tests and establishments.

Date	Movie Name	Country	Film Industry	The Reason Banned
2022	I'll Meet You There		Hollywood	For "negatively depicting" Muslim and Pakistani culture.^[54]
2022	The Lady of Heaven		British	For negatively depicting important Muslim figures and portraying historical inaccuracies.^[55]^[56]