After Shahid, now Haider gets the snip
MUMBAI MIRROR (September 6, 2014)

Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider is the hot topic at the Central Board of Film Certification's office. The Shahid Kapoor-starrer is the last film to be censored by CBFC's suspended CEO, Rakesh Kumar, who is currently in judicial custody after being accused in a bribery case.

The film's leading man famously got tonsured for the role and now Haider too has met with the scissors. The film has been passed with a U/A certificate but only after 41 cuts. The details of the cuts are mentioned on the CBFC's official website (and below).

Some of the scenes removed as per CBFC's directive include, among others: the word 'fu***d', visuals of a burning body, corpses piled into a truck, Haider walking among corpses, a wire inserted into a naked man, a close-up shot of an appendix surgery and a stone-pelting incident.

Kumar, along with the examining committee, not only suggested the cuts but also reviewed the redited film. According to the rule book, the examining committee cannot view the film after the cuts have been introduced and it's brought back to the CBFC. That's when the revising committee steps in.

When contacted, Vishal who is currently in the US, informed through his spokesperson, "The CBFC asked for seven cuts. The film was first submitted to the Board two months before the final edit. When the film came to the revising committee, Vishal along with the film's editor, had made more than 35 cuts to tighten the film. These were not imposed by either the Board or the revising committee."

However, Nandini Sardesai, senior board member who chairs the revising committee, asserted that the film never came to them. "Kumar saw Haider twice and passed it with a U/A certificate. Vishal has apparently agreed to the cuts. But, I don't understand why the revising committee was not approached. That man (read Kumar) was flouting rules," she stated. 

 Haider is 161 minutes long and is all set to release on October 2nd. 
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Details of the scenes cut by the Censor Board:

1 Deleted the visuals of Man looks outside window and loads his gun.
2 Deleted the visuals of Character Salman talks on phone
3 Deleted the visuals of Haider walks amongst dead bodies in truck.
4 Deleted the visuals of Zahoor and Khurrams speeches reduced.
5 Deleted the visuals of Salman and Salman follow Haider
6 Deleted the visuals of Haider folows Roohdaar.
7 Deleted the visuals of wild shot of gate of graveyard.
8 Deleted the visuals of millitants take Haider into grave-diggers home
9 Deleted the visuals of security personnel put wire into naked man
10 Deleted the visuals of security personnel put wire into naked man
11 Deleted the visuals of Roohdar and Hilaal sit in the jail cell
12 Deleted the visuals of Arshia hugs Haider.
13 Muted the word "fucked"at 02.41.54
14 Deleted the visuals of Haider points gun at Salman
15 Deleted the visuals of Salman and Salman stone hitting reduced
16 Deleted the visuals of Salman and Salman stone hitting reduced
17 Deleted the visuals of shot of Salman's bloody dead body
18 Deleted the visuals of Salman and Salman stone hitting reduced
19 Deleted the visuals of Haider and Ghazala talk in front of mirror
20 Deleted the visuals of Shot of red muffler in the snow.
21 Deleted the visuals of shot of Liyaqaat entering house
22 Deleted the visuals of Grave digger takes out the hidden guns
23 Deleted the visuals of ikhwan soldier gets shot on the chest and ikhwanis fire guns and run
24 Deleted the visuals of Grave digger fires gun
25 Deleted the visuals of Grave digger throws grenade while gettig shot on his chest
26 Deleted the visuals of burning dead body falls to the gorund
27 Deleted the single dialogue
28 Deleted the visuals of Khurram and Haider watch as Ghazala heads towards the house
29 Deleted the visuals of Haider falters as he steps down from staircase
30 Deleted the visuals of Haider falters as he steps down from staircase
31 Deleted the visuals of Ghazala talks to Haider - shot length reduced
32 Deleted the visuals of dead bodies fly to ground after explosion shots
33 Deleted the visuals of shot of severed hand holding gun length reduced
34 Deleted the visuals of Haider cries upon seeing flames
35 Deleted the visuals of post explosin shot of severed legs hands
36 Deleted the visual of Surgery of appendix close up.
37 Reduced by 40% the visuals of dead bodies in the truck.
38 DeletedGenital torture scene and Removed the scream.
39 Reduced by 50% the visuals of bare back in the song.
40 Deleted the visuals of big stone on head.
41 Reduced by 25% the visuals of violence especially severed body parts and blood(Replaced with servered body parts cleaned with VFX).