The movie was based on a memoir by the stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who founded the investment firm Stratton Oakmont in a Long Island garage.

The film follows Belfort’s meteoric rise to the top in between snorting cocaine, unbelievable debauchery and 569 variations of the F-word.

Needless to say, this banning made the movie more popular and back street vendors made a killing from the sales.

Now the Kenya Film Classification Board has banned another film…a Kenyan one this time. The movie is titled “The Story of Our Lives” and tells the story of the gay and lesbian community in Kenya.The film has been restricted for allegedly ‘promoting homosexuality.’

Exhibition, distribution and broadcasting of the film produced by Nest Arts Company Ltd is forbidden and violators would be put on trial.