Kareena Kapoor's smoking scenes cut from trailer

MARIA SAEED

KARACHI: Madhur Bhandarkar’s ambitious venture “Heroine” is going to be promoted with the help of three trailers. Though all of them will have almost the same content, there will be essential differences on the basis of the section of the audience being targeted.

The third trailer that will be shown at theatres across India will have all the steamy, sexy clips from the film but no smoking scenes, as shots of her smoking in the trailer of the film have been censored before being cleared.

The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has decided to blur all images of smoking from feature films.

"We've taken a decision some time back to show no smoking in trailers. This is because in a trailer, there can be no disclaimer about smoking. In the full-length feature film, there has to be disclaimer about smoking at the beginning and after interval. Even then the smoking sequences are blurred," said J.P. Singh, CBFC's regional officer in Mumbai.

Singh also confirmed the censoring of Kapoor's smoking scene as well as some love-making scenes and expletives in the trailer of Bhandarkar's "Heroine".

Media sources also reported that the Censor Board did not limit to just the trailers. Smoking scenes in the complete film will be blurred with a statutory warning.

Apparently, the cast and crew of the film are not happy with cuts.