There had been a two-year delay because when the film was first released Mr Kapur said he would not allow any censorship of the film.
Films have a very short shelf life and the delay has only helped fill the coffers of pirates.
The cuts Elizabeth, which won an Oscar and four British Academy Film Awards, was blocked when the Indian film censor tribunal objected to a beheading, a nude scene and the use of a word deemed vulgar. A version including two cuts the censorship tribunal insisted upon will come to screens in India next week. The film maker did managed to convince censors that the beheading was the clue to the character of the queen and they then backed down on two other scenes. The word 'quinny' will be cut - it was used in the film to humiliate the young queen and a love scene was trimmed. Shekhar Kapur started his career making Hindi films and broke into international cinema five years ago with Bandit Queen.