Movie’s too sexy for India

Prudish censors in the Indian government have quashed Hollywood’s attempt to bring to screen the steamy life of the country’s famous “It” girl, Lady Mountbatten. Joe Wright, who directed “Atonement” and “Pride and Prejudice,” had been working with Hugh Grant and Cate Blanchett on a film adaptation of Alex von Tunzelmann‘s book “Indian Summer,” about the torrid romance between Lady Mountbatten and India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. However, Nehru is revered as a George Washington-like figure in India, and the government — responsible for approving all movie projects — demanded that the sex scenes be deleted and the script rewritten. “We were in between a rock and a hard place,” Wright told Variety. “The Indian government wanted us to make less of the love story, while the studio wanted us to make more of the love story.” Universal, which halted production, didn’t get back to us.