Salman Khan censors ‘Dabangg 3’ song following outcry
The Bollywood film is currently screening in the UAE
The makers of ‘Dabangg 3’ have voluntarily removed “certain scenes” from the title track ‘Hud Hud Dabangg’.
A tweet from the official Twitter handle of Salman Khan Films read: “Keeping everyone’s sentiment in mind we have voluntarily edited certain scenes from the song ‘Hud Hud Dabangg’.”
‘Dabangg 3’ landed in controversy when a Hindu outfit and sections of social media objected to a sequence in the title song that shows saffron-clad sadhus (priests) dancing with guitars.
The outfit, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, also sent a letter to the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) demanding the censor certificate of the film be cancelled, even as #BoycottDabangg3 had trended on social media.
Khan, who returns in his popular cop avatar of Chulbul Pandey in ‘Dabangg 3’, on December 1 had reacted to the storm over the song saying that a certain section of people were trying to gain publicity by dragging the number unnecessarily into a controversy.
‘Dabangg 3’, directed by Prabhudheva, is currently screening in the UAE.