The Grand Tour's Fourth Episode Was Half As Long In India Due To Amazon's Extreme Censoring
As you might know if you watched it, The Grand Tour’s fourth episode was 62 minutes long. Unless you were watching in India, in which case the instalment was only 30 minutes in duration. Yep, yes than half as long. The reason? It was massively censored in the country.
Mashable reports that parts of the episode which showed the windscreen of Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘bone car’ being made from cow parts were cut. With a whopping 32 minutes missing however, we can only assume massive chunks of the ‘eco car’ segment were cut.
Cows are considered sacred in Hinduism, and with almost 80 per cent of the country’s population identifies as Hindus, Amazon was clearly trying its best to avoid offending. But did it go too far?
It’s apparently common practice for broadcasters to censor parts of programmes for release in India, but the sheer scale of the cuts to this Grand Tour episode are seen as unusual, and Amazon’s extreme censorship has been labelled by some media outlets as ‘heavy-handed’.
Amazon told Mashable India:
“Amazon is a responsible company and we are here to entertain the Indian customer with award-winning content from the US along with blockbusters from Indian and regional makers…We will keep Indian cultural sensitivities in mind while offering this content to customers.”
The Grand Tour continues this Friday with episode six of its debut series.
Source: The Independent, Mashable
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That make me want to 🏫🔫
“We will keep Indian cultural sensitivities in mind while offering this content to customers” - well they just hurt the people belonging to the ‘Indian Petrol head culture’ who actually watch TGT.
Couldn’t they just put a censor bar over Clarkson’s car? I mean why cut out the parts!
cries in a corner
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And that is why God created VPN
On another note, I remember some of my fellow Indian friends joining me and my fellow Computer Science classmates on a trip to the Korean BBQ. Now I’m Christian so I don’t got no diet restrictions whatsoever though I’m Indian. But I felt bad as my Indian friends ate beef believing it to be mutton (goat meat), I didn’t have the heart to tell them the truth as I scarfed down half a steak of delicious BBQ beef XD
Oh you savage. XD
It should be under the viewers discretion. People of India have undoubtedly seen the trailer or an ad online to see what its about, if they dont like the look of the Episode simply dont watch it.
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Omg people who get offended need to man up!