Film-makers in Bangalore are furious that the information and broadcasting ministry is suggesting changes to a script about the 'romance' between Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten

Film-makers in Bangalore are upset about the government trying to modify the script of an English-language film that portrays a romance between Pandit Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten.

Actor Irrfan Khan stars opposite Cate Blanchett in Indian Summer, based on a book of the same name.

Outlook magazine reported last week that the information and broadcasting ministry was looking at the script, and had demanded that intimate scenes be downplayed.

Not everyone is convinced national hero Nehru had a sexual relationship with the pretty wife of a British viceroy.

Nayantara Sehgal, author and Nehru's niece, said on a TV show that people who thought the two had a sexual relationship would only be "conjecturing".

In Bangalore, award-winning film-makers said the government was trespassing into artist territory by trying to change the script.