Sony Pictures will not release its blockbuster movie The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo in India after censors demanded that scenes showing “bare bottoms” be blurred.

The Hollywood film starring Daniel Craig about a journalist’s search for a woman missing for 40 years was due to be released on Friday, but it ran into problems with India’s Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).

“Bare bottom and bare-breast scenes are not allowed in India,” J.P. Singh, an official at CBFC, told AFP.

“We objected to several scenes in The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo and wanted them to be blurred.”

Sony Pictures in India acknowledged in a statement sent to AFP last Monday that it would not compromise on the content of the film, which has grossed €140 million worldwide.

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