The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has run their dreaded scissors on War 2. As per a report in Bollywood Hungama the CBFC has asked the makers to reduce the “sensual” images in the film by 50 per cent, which in terms of duration amounts to nine seconds.
These visuals are assumed to be those of Kiara Advani’s bikini scene in the song ‘Aavan Jaavan’. Kiara’s look had got a roaring response on social media and CBFC has played spoilsport by censoring nine seconds of it.
That’s not all, CBFC has also asked the makers to mute “inappropriate references” in the audio as well as visuals. The changes were made in as many as six places in the film. An “obscene” dialogue was replaced by an approved sentence. Just a minute after this dialogue, an “obscene” gesture made by a character, lasting two seconds, was asked to be deleted.
Once these changes were made, War 2 was passed with a U/A 16+ certificate on August 6. Interestingly, the film’s makers had approached the CBFC again on August 8. As per the Bollywood Hungama report, they voluntarily cut down the film’s length to make it crisper and more effective. The revised run time of the film is now 171.44 minutes, that is, 2 hours, 51 minutes and 44 seconds from 2 hours, 59 minutes and 49 seconds.
An industry source has stated that War 2 was cleared by the Revising Committee instead of the Examining Committee (EC). The source said, “It is possible that the EC must have asked for many changes, which must have prompted War 2 makers to approach the RC.”
The source added, “The Presiding Officer of the RC was Padma Shri Ramesh Patange. He is known to clear those films for which the EC has had reservations. Last year, he had cleared the controversial film Hamare Baraah and also Vedaa. The latter also had faced issues with the EC after which the RC cleared the film, albeit with changes.”
War 2 stars Hrithik Roshan, Jr NTR and Kiara Advani. It is set to release on August 14, ahead of the Independence Day weekend.
