Nakhrewaalii arrived in cinemas on October 30 with a comic North Indian pitch, but its censor certificate tells a more layered story. The Central Board of Film Certification passed the romantic comedy with an ‘A’ certificate, and before signing off on October 28 it asked for a modified opening disclaimer, a muted phrase and three dialogue replacements.
What the board asked for
According to Bollywood Hungama, the film’s opening disclaimer was changed, the words ‘Maa ki’ were muted in the audio, and ‘mother’ was removed from the subtitles. The dialogue replacements were recorded on the certificate as follows:
- ‘UP mein sab poor hote hai kya Sumit’ was replaced with ‘Tumhare yahan sab aise hote hai kya…’
- A second ‘UP’ reference was replaced with ‘village’.
- ‘Must be some East Delhi b***h’ was replaced with ‘Must be some cheap little witch’.
The certificate was issued on October 28. The final approved length is 129.27 minutes, or 2 hours 9 minutes 27 seconds.
Why the dialogue cuts matter
The substitutions are small on paper, but they change the texture of a film that is selling itself on regional flavour. ‘UP’ is not only a location in Hindi film comedy; it carries class and cultural coding. Replacing it with ‘village’ preserves the joke’s dismissive tone while removing the direct reference to a state and its people. The East Delhi line goes from a gendered slur to a milder jab that still keeps the sentence’s rhythm.
For regular followers of Hindi cinema, this is a familiar censor ritual. The CBFC has long asked filmmakers to soften place-based and gender-based humour while often leaving the adult rating untouched. The A certificate also carries a practical consequence: the film is restricted to adult audiences, which sits awkwardly with its family-entertainer positioning.
The release on screen
Nakhrewaalii stars Ansh Duggal and Pragati Srivastava. The story follows a misogynistic young man whose love life takes a sharp turn when the father of the woman he loves challenges him to land a government job within a month. When he works out that his only realistic route is to become a woman, the film shifts into a string of chaotic situations.
Viewers catching the film this weekend are seeing the board’s moderated cut, with its North Indian colour intact but some of its sharpest regional and gendered edges filed down.
Source: bollywoodHungama.com
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