CBFC U/A · BBFC 15 · our read 12+ · read from 5 reviews and the board’s recordOur read is under the BBFC’s because the record shows strong sex or nudity and nothing stronger. The sources are below.
12+
Parents should know
Strong sexual content: a man steals photos of people's wives and masturbates to them. A dark comedy about a man who blackmails his wife's lover after finding an affair; includes repeated scenes of a colleague masturbating to photos, a joke about drugging a date, and some gory deaths. Also moderate violence, mild substance use and mild scary or upsetting scenes.
Parents should know
12 and up
Strong sex & nudity
Moderate violence
From 5 reviews Filmi read; the age is the CBFC U/A certificate’s.
1 · CertificateCBFC U/A · 12+
2 · Filmi’s read5 of 7 categories documentedNot documented does not mean absent
LanguageNot documented
Role modelsNot documented
3 · Parents’ votesNone counted yet. Yours is the slider below.
Every piece of evidence behind the flags, quoted, with its source.
Drinking, smoking, drugs · Mild · Reviewer on record
“Ranjit (Arunoday) and his lush of a wife (Dutta)” view the record →
Sex & nudity · Strong · Reviewer on record
“steals pictures of people’s wives from their work desks and masturbates to them in the office washroom” view the record →
Sex & nudity · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“I'll take her to my bar, mix two large vodkas with a Coke and get her drunk... this is called rape” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“Characters are bumped off, sometimes in most gory detail” view the record →
Sex & nudity · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“absurd scenes involving Khan as a pathological masturbator, groan-worthy scenes that don't push the envelope as much as they make it grubby” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“Half the film involves Khan wishfully imagine killing other characters - a what-if device” view the record →
Drinking, smoking, drugs · Mild · Reviewer on record
When Dev finds about his wife's affair, he starts blackmailing her and her lover but the blackmail game backfires on him.
Parents ask
Answered from the record below — the certificate, the board’s cut list, and what reviewers documented.
Is Blackmail OK for kids?
Filmi puts Blackmail at 12+ — suitable for 12 and over. The CBFC certified it U/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 Blackmail suitable for?
12+, based on the CBFC rating of U/A. 4 of the five content-warning categories are documented for this film.
What content should parents know about in Blackmail?
What the record shows: violence — moderate; language — not on record; sex or nudity — strong; drink or drugs — mild; frightening scenes — mild. 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 Blackmail?
The CBFC certified it U/A with no published cut list. That is not the same as the film being uncut — only that no modification was published.
