7 cuts for Shah Rukh Khan's Fan

Shah Rukh Khan’s next release, Fan — releasing on April 15 — features a scene of prolonged police brutality and shows the obsessive star stalker (SRK as Gaurav Chanana) being thrashed in lock-up while the star (SRK as Aryan Khanna) urges the cops to continue the merciless thrashing.

Says a source, “The scene of prolonged violence in lock-up where one Shah Rukh Khan urges the cops to beat up the other Shah Rukh was found to be unnecessarily prolonged. The Censor Board has asked for the sequence to be reduced by 50 per cent.” Besides the visual cut, the Board has asked for six verbal cuts. Cuss words and abuses in both Hindi and English have been asked to be deleted.

Cop brutality in Bollywood

1. JAIL: The film features Neil Nitin Mukesh as a guy wrongly convicted and it showcases the poor condition in Indian jails
 2. DRISHYAM: A family is tortured at the say-so of a top cop to get them to reveal whereabouts of the cop’s missing son.
 3. GUMRAH: Sridevi faces torture at the hands of a female guard in the Mahesh Bhatt film.
4. BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN: Salman Khan gets beaten up by Pakistani cops and is accused of being an Indian spy.