A famous anecdote from the Telugu film industry perfectly illustrates how the term "blue film" (a common synonym for pornography in India) itself became a cause for censorship. In an interview about his 1998 indie film "Hyderabad Blues," director Nagesh Kukunoor recalled that the first reaction from film censors was, "Title badlo" (change the title). He explained, "...they thought it referred to pornography and he'd made a blue film. When I tried telling them that by blues I meant sad, they were even more convinced that I should change my title because you couldn't project Hyderabad as a city of depressed people". This incident reveals a cultural sensitivity where even words with alternate meanings are viewed with suspicion if they can be remotely associated with adult themes.
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