Anurag Kashyap after a long wait Kennedy It will finally be released tomorrow, i.e. Friday, 20th February. The acclaimed film premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. The same year, it was screened at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, also at the spacious Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre. A month after this successful screening, the film got the censor certificate. in this article, IHNS The focus will be on the cuts made to the neo-noir drama.
Exclusive: CBFC has replaced ‘Donald Trump’ with ‘Pump Trump’, ‘Dawood Ibrahim’ with ‘Pakistan Don’ in Anurag Kashyap’s film Kennedy.
Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) passed Kennedy With ‘A’ certificate. However, the examination committee asked for some cuts. Firstly, the word ‘motherf***’ was muted in the dialogues as well as the subtitles. The words ‘Donald Trump’ were replaced with ‘Pump Trump’. Scenes, dialogues with fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim ‘Dawood Ibrahim’ by…1993 I‘ was removed and the words ‘Pakistan Don’ were inserted in its place.
Then, in the first part, the scene with the insulting dialogue ‘Matunga, Matunga…’.play the flute‘, which lasted 14 seconds, was asked to be removed. Finally, anti-smoking static messages were asked to be displayed in all smoking scenes.
Once the changes have been made, Kennedy The censor certificate was assigned on November 23, 2023. The length of the film as mentioned on the censor certificate is 148.54 minutes. In other words, Kennedy is 2 hours, 28 minutes, and 54 seconds long.
Kennedy Rahul Bhatt and Sunny Leone are in the lead roles. It is set during the Covid era and tells the story of a former policeman, thought dead by the world but who is very much alive, doing his dirty work for the corrupt Mumbai Commissioner while driving a luxury app-based cab in Mumbai.
In December 2025, Kennedy Became the only Indian film selected for the launch lineup of Letterboxd’s video store. The film was thus made available to netizens in 23 countries through the TVOD model. However, India was not included in this list. It was announced last month in January 2026 Kennedy Will premiere on ZEE5.
