after cooperating Bastard (2009), Haider (2014) and rangoon (2017), Shahid Kapoor and director Vishal Bhardwaj have joined hands for the fourth time o’romeo. This combo along with the ensemble cast, impressive trailer and the soulful-n-peppy album has generated interest towards the film. o’romeo It will be released on February 13 and the censor process was completed earlier this week. in this article, IHNS The focus will be exclusively on cuts given to action entertainers.
Exclusive: O’Romeo is Shahid Kapoor’s second A-rated film after Kabir Singh; CBFC replaces ‘item’ with ‘Kumari’; ‘The woman slapping scene’ reduced by 20%
o’romeo Has been awarded ‘A’ certificate; In other words, this is the second A-rated film of Shahid Kapoor’s career. Kabir Singh (2019). Despite the adult rating, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) asked for several changes.
The investigation committee of CBFC made several changes in the dialogues. The word ‘item’ was replaced with ‘Kumari’. One word was changed at four other places, but there are no details in the cut list. At one point a word was muted, while at another point an ‘inappropriate’ word was asked to be removed.
No cuts have been made in romantic and intimate scenes. However, some violent scenes faced the censor’s scissors. Throat slit close-up scene reduced by 20% i.e. 3 seconds. 2 seconds were reduced to two shots – one a close-up shot of a ‘bloody decapitation’ and the other a close-up shot of blood streaming down a woman’s face. Then, the ‘woman slapping scene’ was also reduced by 20% or 2 seconds.
Finally, anti-tobacco and anti-smoking tickers were added and voice overs were asked to increase the length of each disclaimer. The latter added 1 minute and 57 seconds to the film’s run time.
Once these changes were made, o’romeo The censor certificate was handed over on 11 February. The length of the film as mentioned on the censor certificate is 178.41 minutes. In other words, o’romeo is 2 hours, 58 minutes and 41 seconds long. This also means o’romeo The longest film of Shahid Kapoor and Vishal Bhardwaj.
