L2 Empuraan’s record of 24 cuts: Gujarat riots reference, villain identify, Suresh Gopi’s thanks card tweaked
Apr 01, 2025 06:56 PM IST
Prithviraj Sukumaran’s L2 Empuraan, that includes Mohanlal, went by way of some adjustments in order to not ‘harm sentiments’. Check out adjustments made.
Actor-director Prithviraj Sukumaran’s latest Malayalam movie, L2 Empuraan, starring Mohanlal, bumped into controversy after its launch on March 27. The movie made some references to the 2002 Gujarat riots that didn’t go down nicely with a piece of the viewers. 24 cuts have been made to the movie, with 2 minutes and eight seconds of footage eliminated. Check out what was tweaked. (Additionally Learn: Suresh Gopi dismisses L2 Empuraan controversy over Gujarat riot scene as ‘all enterprise’: ‘Screwing psyche of individuals’)
L2 Empuraan loses 2 minutes of footage, makes these adjustments
A commerce analyst posted the record of 24 adjustments and cuts accredited by the Central Board of Movie Certification (CBFC) and the contemporary certification the producers of L2 Empuraan obtained after the cuts. The record reveals that thanks playing cards mentioning actor-politician Suresh Gopi and Extra Commissioner Earnings Tax, Jyothi Mohan IRS, had been eliminated and adjusted with different thanks playing cards.
A card mentioning a selected interval was changed with ‘just a few years in the past’, and scenes of autos passing in entrance of a non secular construction had been lower out. Conversations between Masood (Satyajit Sharma) and Zayed Masood (Prithviraj), Balraj (Abhimanyu Singh) and Munna (Sukant Goel) had been moved. Another scenes with Balraj had been eliminated and the identify he makes use of later within the movie, Bhajarangi, was modified to Baldev.
Visuals depicting violence towards ladies had been eliminated, as was a reputation board on a automotive, visuals depicting TV information, and a non secular construction.
Concerning the controversy
Because the controversy broke, Mohanlal issued an apology. Mallika additionally got here to her son Prithviraj’s defence when folks claimed that Mohanlal wasn’t made conscious of the controversial scenes within the movie. Producer Antony Perumbavoor of Aashirvad Cinemas, spoke to the press in Kochi, in accordance with PTI and confirmed they had been trimming down the movie. Nevertheless, he denied it was because of any ‘stress or threats’.
