The Da Vinci Code is for Adults in India!!!

The Da Vinci Code was on Thursday (May 18) cleared by the India’s film censor board without any cuts and will be screened only for adult audiences with disclaimers meant to assuage Christian groups that had opposed its release.

The censor clearance came after Christian leaders, who watched the movie with India’s Broadcasting Minister Dasmunsi on Thursday, suggested that “strong and lingering disclaimers” describing it as a work of pure fiction with “no resemblance to historical truth” be inserted at its beginning and end.

They also demanded it should be given an adults-only certification as it was only meant for grown-ups who could distinguish between fact and fiction.

The government had earlier held up the movie’s screening after nearly 300 Christian groups submitted representations opposing it.

Peter Travers review appears in the Rolling Stone: “There’s no code to decipher. Da Vinci is a dud — a dreary, droning, dull-witted adaptation of Dan Brown’s religioso detective story that sold 50 million copies worldwide.

“Conservative elements in the Catholic Church are all worked up over a plot that questions Christ’s divinity and posits a Vatican conspiracy to cover up Jesus Christ’s alleged marriage to Mary Magdalene and to drive all things feminine from the church. Here’s the sure way to quiet the protesters: Have them see the movie. They will fall into a stupor in minutes. I know it bored me breathless…”

Jerry Cobb, Reporter, writes in CNBC website “Hollywood has high hopes for ‘Da Vinci Code’. But early reviews don’t bode well for Sony’s blockbuster ambitions.

“Early reviews from the Cannes Film Festival are not encouraging. The Da Vinci Code was supposed to make a big bang with its worldwide premiere here in the U.S. Instead, it’s more like a whimper.”

“It’s not suspenseful, it’s not romantic, it’s certainly not fun,â€? said Stephen Schaefer, a film critic for the Boston Herald. “It seems like you’re in there forever, and you’re just conscious of how hard everybody’s working to try to make sense out of something that’s basically perhaps unfilmable.”

And a Reuters report says: “First reviews for The Da Vinci Code may be mostly scathing, but box office experts say they expect the Mona Lisa to keep smiling all the way to the bank this weekend.”