The director of an award-winning Indian film is fighting film censors to ensure that Lipstick Under My Burkha gets released in the country.

Alankrita Shrivastava was recently informed in a letter - badly-worded and full of spelling mistakes - that her film was being denied a censor certificate for being too "lady-oriended [oriented]" with "contanious [continuous] sexual scenes".

The Central Board of Film Certification also complained that the film "has abusive words, audio pornography [meaning phone sex], and a bit sensitive touch about one particular section of society [implying it could hurt Muslim religious sentiments]".