EXCLUSIVE: Sikandar makers voluntarily cut 14.28 minutes of the film after getting censor certificate; Salman Khan singing ‘Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh’ trimmed by 11 seconds (DETAILS INSIDE) : Bollywood News-OxBig News Network

Yesterday, Bollywood Hungama exclusively reported that the Salman Khan-starrer Sikandar has been passed by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) with a UA 13+ certificate on March 21. As per the censor certificate, the run time was 150.08 minutes, that is, 2 hours 30 minutes and 8 seconds. But we also informed readers that as per certain exhibition sources, the final length of the film is 2 hours 15 minutes and 46 seconds.

EXCLUSIVE: Sikandar makers voluntarily cut 14.28 minutes of the film after getting censor certificate; Salman Khan singing ‘Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh’ trimmed by 11 seconds (DETAILS INSIDE)

Bollywood Hungama has now learned that the makers of Sikandar approached the CBFC after obtaining the certificate. This is because they shortened the duration of several scenes throughout the film. As per the rules, the CBFC needs to be informed if any addition or deletion takes place in a film after the issuing of certificate. Hence, the CBFC was approached and they approved the film with the additional voluntary cuts.

As per the voluntary cut list, the trimming has taken place in 26 scenes. 4 of these scenes are more than 1-minute long. A scene with the dialogue ‘Offer aukat ke bahar tha’ was trimmed. A 2 minute 26 second scene with the dialogue ‘Chaar miss call…chalo Rajkot’, a 1 minute 12 second scene with the dialogue ‘Usse leke aata hoon’ and a 4-minute scene with the dialogue ‘Aa gaye aa gaye…bad husband’ were deleted completely by the makers.

The rest of the scenes cut are less than 60 seconds long. The scene of Sanjay (Salman Khan) singing ‘Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh’ has been trimmed by 11 seconds. A sequence with the dialogue ‘Aate rahenge ab toh’ was 56 seconds long was deleted. The scene of Holi shots and the dialogue ‘Yeh sirf sample tha’ was reduced by 40 seconds.

In all, 14 minute and 28 seconds of the film was axed by the makers. As for additions, 7 seconds of Sanjay’s reaction shots were included.

After these changes, the final run time of Sikandar is now 135.47 minutes, that is, 2 hours 15 minutes and 47 seconds. The CBFC approved these changes on Monday, March 24. The film is all set to release in cinemas on March 30.

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