KATHMANDU, Jan 22: Nepal’s Maoist-led government banned a new Bollywood film on Thursday after angry protests over a reference in it to India being Lord Buddha’s birthplace, an official said.

Nepali film censorship authorities had removed the controversial scene from ‘Chandni Chowk to China’, but many had already seen the unedited version on illegal CDs/DVDs smuggled across the porous border with India. —Reuters