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CBFC Asks Makers to Tone Down Multiple Stabbing Scenes, Remove Foul Word in Alia Bhatt-Sharvari’s Alpha

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The highly anticipated action thriller Alpha, starring Bollywood powerhouse Alia Bhatt and rising star Sharvari Wagh, has successfully cleared its final hurdle ahead of its grand theatrical release. The Central Board of Film Certification has officially granted the mega-budget project a U/A 16+ certificate, allowing the spy thriller to hit screens worldwide on its scheduled date of July third. While the news has brought immense relief to fans and the production team at Yash Raj Films, the official censor reports reveal that the clearance came with a specific set of guidelines and mandatory modifications. The regulatory body’s examining committee thoroughly reviewed the film’s intense action sequences and language, subsequently directing the filmmakers to tone down several graphic elements, modify key visuals, and delete an explicit expletive before issuing the final exhibition certificate.

According to the official certification documents dated June twenty-nine, the censor board focused heavily on reducing the graphic nature of the onscreen violence to make the film suitable for its target audience bracket. The makers were instructed to significantly modify a sequence occurring around the twenty-five-minute mark, followed by a directive to tone down a highly intense, multiple stabbing sequence in the second half of the film by substituting the graphic frames with milder alternate shots. Language regulators also took exception to a specific foul word used during the first half of the narrative, ordering its complete removal or muting from the audio track. Yash Raj Films promptly complied with all the requested visual and audio adjustments, ensuring that no actual storyline footage was permanently deleted from the final edit, but rather softened visually through clever technical replacements.

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Beyond the specific content cuts, the Central Board of Film Certification required the production house to complete several technical updates to fulfill regional broadcasting standards. The filmmakers were asked to carefully redraft the opening disclaimer text, ensure that accurate English subtitles are present for every single musical track, and display all introductory cards and end-credit scrolls in Hindi. Additionally, the committee mandated the insertion of anti-alcohol static warning labels across all individual scenes that depict characters consuming liquor, alongside the submission of a formal parental consent letter for the child artist featured in the movie. Directed by Shiv Rawail, Alpha marks a historic milestone as the very first female-led spy film within the highly successful YRF Spy Universe, clocking in with an officially approved final runtime of exactly one hundred and forty minutes and forty-eight seconds.

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