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Is Batwara 1947 OK for kids?
Age guidance
18 and up
CBFC A · our read 18+ · read from 29 reviews and the board’s record
18+
Parents should know
Strong violence. A Partition-era drama: a Muslim family shelters an elderly Hindu woman in Lahore amid communal riots. Also moderate scary or upsetting scenes and moderate sexual content.
Parents should know
18 and up
- Strong violence
- Moderate sex & nudity
- Moderate intense scenes
From 29 reviews Filmi read; the age is the CBFC A certificate’s.
1 · CertificateCBFC A · 18+
2 · Filmi’s read5 of 7 categories documentedNot documented does not mean absent
LanguageNot documented
Drinking, smoking, drugsNot documented
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Summary
The story of an elderly Hindu woman who refuses to leave her ancestral home in Lahore, only to have a Muslim refugee family from Lucknow allotted to her house following the events of the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.
Filmi puts it at 18+, and the CBFC certified it A.
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Certificates
CBFC · IndiaA
Minimum age
Source: CBFC
Certificate · CBFC
Aminimum age 18
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The record, item by item
Every piece of evidence behind the flags, quoted, with its source.
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“The film contains some very frightening violent content — the level of crime against women will scare you.” view the record →
Intense scenes · None · Reviewer on record
“The movie is purely family friendly.” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“Batwara 1947 uses this lack of censorship not for shock value, but to establish psychological terror” view the record →
Intense scenes · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“Sikandar Mirza and Hamida arrive in Lahore carrying immense psychological trauma” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“a lumpen fellow, who goes about making dire threats against those 'kaafirs' who do puja” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“boasts of having killed innumerable kaafirs during Partition” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“scarred by the brutality he witnessed and the loss of family members left behind in India” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“Communal riots have broken out in several parts of the country” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“a local pehalwan who proudly boasts of the non-Muslims he killed during the post-Partition riots” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“witnessed the brutality inflicted on Muslims fleeing to Pakistan and returns consumed by bitterness” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“forced to flee for Lahore on a blood-soaked Partition night” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“bloodthirsty Muslims of Lahore are matched by the bloodthirsty Hindu and Sikhs of Meerut, some of whom kill Mirza's extended family” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“an elderly Hindu woman whose son was killed during the riots” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“riots break out in the country” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“Shabana Azmi gets shamed in public, disrobed, and beaten” view the record →
Intense scenes · Mild · Reviewer on record
“harsh reality of religious hatred and violence compels the family to cross the border” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“seen Rashid and family butchered back home” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“the carnage he witnessed back in Meerut” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“local Hindu mobs are approaching... looters and murderers” view the record →
Sex & nudity · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“the woman he loved was sexually assaulted by multiple men” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“the violence that erupts on the eve of India's Independence” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“Sunny Deol's famous fists of fury are unleashed in a few scenes” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“Rashid and family butchered back home” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“a local pehalwan who proudly boasts of the non-Muslims he killed” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“फिल्म में कुछ महा भयानक वायलेंट कंटेंट भी डाला गया है” view the record →
Intense scenes · Mild · Reviewer on record
“He has seen people killed” view the record →
Intense scenes · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“Having just survived the horrific communal violence” view the record →
Intense scenes · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“they try blackmailing her with threats of forced religious conversion”
Intense scenes · Strong · Reviewer on record
“जिसमें औरतों के साथ क्राइम का लेवल आपको डरा देगा” view the record →
Positive messages · Strong · Reviewer on record
“no religion is evil, only humans are” view the record →
Positive messages · Strong · Reviewer on record
“hatred is the real enemy” view the record →
Role models · Strong · Reviewer on record
“Not just a fierce protector but also an empath” view the record →
Role models · Strong · Reviewer on record
“a single good human can foster enough humanity to conquer hatred” view the record →
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Summary
The story of an elderly Hindu woman who refuses to leave her ancestral home in Lahore, only to have a Muslim refugee family from Lucknow allotted to her house following the events of the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.
Parents ask
Answered from the record below — the certificate, the board’s cut list, and what reviewers documented.
Is Batwara 1947 OK for kids?
Filmi puts Batwara 1947 at 18+ — suitable for 18 and over. The CBFC certified it A. That comes from the certificate and from what reviewers documented, not from anyone at Filmi watching the film — every claim on this page is quoted with its source.
What age is Batwara 1947 suitable for?
18+, based on the CBFC rating of A. 3 of the five content-warning categories are documented for this film.
What content should parents know about in Batwara 1947?
What the record shows: violence — strong; language — not on record; sex or nudity — moderate; drink or drugs — not on record; frightening scenes — moderate. A category left blank means nobody documented it, not that the film is clean — the full record, quoted with sources, is on this page.
Did the censor board cut anything from Batwara 1947?
The CBFC certified it A with no published cut list. That is not the same as the film being uncut — only that no modification was published.
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