Tiger Shroff’s Baaghi 4 gets 23 cuts even after an ‘A’ certificate: Knife thrown towards Jesus Christ statue; reference to condom, God

As per Bollywood Hungama, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) gave Baaghi 4 an ‘A’ certificate only after it made all the 23 cuts. Days after its certification, on August 29, the makers approached the CBFC again not with any objections, but even more voluntary cuts, bringing down the film’s runtime from 2 hours and 43 minutes to 2 hours and 37 minutes.

Baaghi 4 isn’t the first film to incorporate voluntary cuts after certification. Recent releases like Ayan Mukerji’s spy thriller War 2, starring Hrithik Roshan and Jr NTR, and Vivek Agnihotri’s political drama The Bengal Files, which is slated to release on the same day as Baaghi 4, also opted for the same. Below is a list of cuts CBFC asked the makers of Baaghi 4 to execute:

Visual cuts

1. Deletion of a shot in which Shroff is standing on a coffin.
2. Replacement of a shot featuring the rubbing of a hand on a girl’s hip
3. Deletion of a one-second shot of the lighting of a cigarette from a niranjan diya (lamp)
4. Deletion of a 13-second shot of an amputated hand lighting a cigarette
5. Deletion of a shot featuring a knife being thrown at a statue of Jesus Christ
6. Deletion of the “scene of hit of fist and the leaning of the statue of Jesus”
7. Deletion of three scenes where the human throat is being slashed
8. Deletion of shots of hands being cut
9. Deletion of a shot in which a sword is inserted in a human skull
10. Deletion of other shots involving extreme violence.

Audio cuts

1. Replacement of the words “bhang b*****a”
2. Replacement of “b****e” and “fingering” used by cops with appropriate terminology.
3. Muting of the word “condom” in the dialogue, “Bhai tujhe condom mein hi rehna chahiye tha” (Bro, you should’ve stayed in your condom)
4. Replacement of the dialogue “Tera wajood hi mit jaayega God” (Your existence will be wiped out, God) with the dialogue, “Sab dekhte reh jayenge” (Everybody will just keep staring)
5. Deletion of the dialogue, “Woh bhi darta hai mujhse” (He’s also scared of me)
6. Muting of the dialogue, “Don khoke, ekdum ok.“

Also Read: Conjuring Last Rites will probably beat Tiger Shroff’s Baaghi 4 at India box office, earn 30 times more than Vivek Agnihotri’s The Bengal Files

Baaghi 4 also stars Sanjay Dutt as the chief antaginist, along with Shreyas Talpade, Saurabh Sachdeva, Upendra Limaye and Sonam Bajwa in prominent roles. The movie is produced by Sajid Nadiawala under the banner of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment.