The controversial Hollywood thriller American Assassin about a young CIA recruit, who goes on a killing spree against Islamic terrorists after his girlfriend is killed in a random terror attack on a beach, has been given an ‘A’ certificate and that too, with key cuts. Thereby further disproving the widespread belief that the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) would no longer censor, only certify.

“Motherf*****is still a taboo term. It will always be the same,” says a CBFC source referring to the word that was ordered out of IT and now American Assassin. The abusive word ‘b*****d’ has also been axed from the film. So has a shot of a woman’s frontal nudity. Only then was the film given an ‘A’ certificate’. “It was just a fleeting shot, but the CBFC has asked for it to be removed. This clearly indicates that an ‘Adult’ certificate is no guarantee for a film’s content to go untouched.”