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Interestingly, the Tribunal asked the makers of the film to make voluntary cuts before giving them an A certificate!
Subhash K Jha (DNA; June 22, 2016)

After the honourable High Court’s historic judgment reversing the cuts in Abhishek Choubey’s Udta Punjab that were ordered by the Central Board of Film Certification, another judgment reversing the CBFC’s Revising Committee’s cuts for Indra Kumar’s sex comedy Great Grand Masti, proves the growing redundancy of the CBFC.

In another benchmark decision, the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (a.k. a the Tribunal) upturned all the cuts ordered by the CBFC. Says a well-informed source, “The Examining Committee (EC) had found many scenes and dialogues in Great Grand Masti highly vulgar and objectionable. Rather than go to the Revising Committee(RC) the makers went straight to the Tribunal appealing for a restoration of the cuts. The Tribunal asked to be shown three recent sex comedies Mastizaade, Kya Kool Hain Hum 3 and Grand Masti. Based on the content that was allowed in these three sex comedies the Tribunal restored most of the cuts in Great Grand Masti and passed the film with an ‘Adults’ certificate.”

Interestingly, the Tribunal asked the makers of the film to make voluntary cuts. All the cuts ordered by the EC were restored. Says a source, “The makers were given the prerogative to take voluntary cuts. They made six-seven token cuts and came back to the Tribunal who passed the film without further ado.”