The CBFC profoundly influences Indian cinema, fostering self-censorship and blocking critical films. The author contends the board is "captured," suppressing works inconvenient to the ruling dispensation, purging opposing political narratives. "Monkey Man" faced a de facto ban, and "Homebound" had COVID-19 inaction references censored. The CBFC is also accused of unlawful concealment: failing to publish certificates, obscuring cut details. Condemning pre-censorship as antithetical to free societies, the text demands the CBFC's curtailment or abolition, and accountability to law.