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‘Stree 2’ is breaking all the box office records and the film managed to get Rs 275 crore in India within a span of 7 days. The film has equal elements of horror and comedy and fans are abolutely in love with the funny quotient. There’s a particular scene in the film where the makers cracked a joke on Neha Kakkar. However, the CBFC members replaced Neha Kakkar with Sneha Kakkar in this scene.Director Amar Kaushik has opened up on the board did so.
The director said during a chat with Bollywood Hungama, “The CBFC members pointed that aise jokes se bura lag sakta hai. We thought they had a valid point and hence, didn’t request them to let us retain the dialogue. Anyway, logon ko toh samaj mein aa gaya.”
He further felt that this time around, the CBFC members heard them and were understanding. “The CBFC members that we met this time were intelligent and sensible. They heard our point of view. We could have got many cuts. They told us, ‘Yes, yeh dialogue mein problem hai but if we cut it, it’ll affect the narrative and we know you added it for so-and-so reason. Hence, we won’t censor it’. I was surprised. We were prepared that a lot of dialogues will get cut,” said the film-maker.
The director also affirmed that such jokes weren’t just added for ‘gags’. Amar explained, “When you write comedy, you end up having such jokes. Like when you are sitting with friends, you would pass such comments. That’s where the fun happens. The intention of writer Niren Bhatt and mine was that the way people get humour in their lives, we want to follow suit. We don’t put gags. Humko ‘gag’ word se hi nafrat hai! When someone says ‘Ek gag daal dete hai’, I am like ‘Nahin chahiye mujhe gag’. Gag is akin to puking for me.”
‘Stree 2’ stars Shraddha Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Abhishek Banerjee and Aparshakti Khurrana.
The director said during a chat with Bollywood Hungama, “The CBFC members pointed that aise jokes se bura lag sakta hai. We thought they had a valid point and hence, didn’t request them to let us retain the dialogue. Anyway, logon ko toh samaj mein aa gaya.”
He further felt that this time around, the CBFC members heard them and were understanding. “The CBFC members that we met this time were intelligent and sensible. They heard our point of view. We could have got many cuts. They told us, ‘Yes, yeh dialogue mein problem hai but if we cut it, it’ll affect the narrative and we know you added it for so-and-so reason. Hence, we won’t censor it’. I was surprised. We were prepared that a lot of dialogues will get cut,” said the film-maker.
The director also affirmed that such jokes weren’t just added for ‘gags’. Amar explained, “When you write comedy, you end up having such jokes. Like when you are sitting with friends, you would pass such comments. That’s where the fun happens. The intention of writer Niren Bhatt and mine was that the way people get humour in their lives, we want to follow suit. We don’t put gags. Humko ‘gag’ word se hi nafrat hai! When someone says ‘Ek gag daal dete hai’, I am like ‘Nahin chahiye mujhe gag’. Gag is akin to puking for me.”
‘Stree 2’ stars Shraddha Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Abhishek Banerjee and Aparshakti Khurrana.
