Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was banned in India before it was released
After the hugely successful film Raiders of the Lost Ark was released in 1981, director and creator of the franchise Steven Spielberg was eager to get started on a follow-up. The sequel, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, came out just three years later in 1984, but was extremely different. The movie was a prequel and involved Indy taking nods from a number of other film franchises, including James Bond.
The crux of the film was that Harrison Ford’s character stumbled into a primitive village in India whose children had been stolen.
On top of that, the village’s ancient relics – the Sankara Stones – had also been stolen, prompting Indy to venture to a nearby palace to figure out the mystery.
During the inspection of the palace Indy and his sidekicks – Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan) – found a hidden temple of cultists worshipping the god Kali with human sacrifices.
Details of these aspects of the film led it to be banned in India permanently.
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