Dhadak 2: CBFC Clears Triptii Dimri- Siddhant Chaturvedi's Film After 16 Cuts? Here's What We Know

Filmmaker Karan Johar announced his upcoming project, Dhadak 2, in May last year. He also revealed the lead cast—Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri and also unveiled a teaser. The film was supposed to hit the screens on November 22, 2024 and later the release date was pushed to March, 2025. It reportedly faced trouble to get clearance from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), due to the portrayal of cast discrimination in several scenes of the film.

Now, as per a report in The Hindu, "scenes featuring caste-based discrimination like slurs and violence in Dhadak 2 were removed or modified by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), clearing the way for the film’s release months after its original release date."

What are the modifications in Dhadak 2?

The same report stated that a dialogue in the film in Hindi — “3,000 years of backlog will not be cleared in just 70 years" has been changed to, “The backlog of age-old discrimination will not be cleared in just 70 years.”

Another dialogue which seems to referring to an analogy by the Bahujan Samaj Party’s founder Kanshi Ram has also been reworked.

Yet another dialogue which has been replaced is, “Nilesh ye kalam dekh rahe ho...., Raaj kar rahe hain”. The new dialogue is “Yeh chota sa dhakkan puri qalam ka thoda sa hissa hai aur baki ke hai hum phir bhi hamare sir per baithe hua hai kyu.” 

A five second shot of someone urinating on Nilesh is also censored. Use of slurs such as “chamar” and “bhangi” — have been muted and replaced with “junglee,” respectively. 

Also, sixteen seconds of a three minute scene featuring the “humiliation of Nilesh’s father” has been removed. A dialogue saying, “Dharam ka kaam hai,” (“this is religious work”), was replaced with “Punya ka kaam hai” (“this is [work toward] a good deed”). 

One more dialogue, “Savarnon ke sadak … humein jala dete the.” (“The savarana’s street(s) … they would burn us [alive]”), was replaced with “Na Sadke hamari thin a zameen hamari thin a paani hamar tha yaha tak ki zindagi bhi hamari nahi thi marne ki naubat aayi to shaher aagaya".

A 20-second disclaimer before the film was replaced with a one minute 51 second version. A swear word was muted, and a scene featuring violence against a woman was replaced with a “black screen”. 

Also, in one of the songs, a doha by Tulsidas has been replaced.

Dhadak 2 has been certified with ‘U/A 16+’ rating.

Directed by Shazia Iqbal, it is a remake of the Tamil anti-caste 2018 film Pariyerum Perumal, which was released with four cuts, But Dhadak 2 had to undergo sixteen modifications.