Much to the shock of India’s Tibetan community, the Censor Board decided that Tibetan flags shown in the song ‘Sadda Haq’ celebrating rebels, in the 2011 film Rockstar, must be blurred out so as not to offend the Chinese.137 The song is an anthem against authoritarianism and for individual freedom performed by the singer Mohit Chauhan and written by the poet Irshad Kamil. The mandarins thus ended up hilariously and emphatically making the musical masterpiece’s point.
