EXCLUSIVE: Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat is FIRST Diwali release in 22 years to get ‘A’ rating; CBFC replaces ‘Raavan’ with ‘villain’, ‘maal’ with ‘ladki’ : Bollywood News

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Diwali usually brings family entertainers, but The madness of a crazy person takes a bold turn. The film has been certified ‘A’. With recent adult-rated hits like Animals (2023), Coolies (2025) etc., proving that an ‘A’ tag doesn’t stop box office success, this intense love story is ready to make its mark amid the festive fireworks.

EXCLUSIVE: Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat is FIRST Diwali release in 22 years to get 'A' rating; CBFC replaces 'Raavan' with 'villain', 'maal' with 'ladki'

EXCLUSIVE: Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat is FIRST Diwali release in 22 years to get ‘A’ rating; CBFC replaces ‘Raavan’ with ‘villain’, ‘maal’ with ‘ladki’

Despite the ‘A’ rating, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) requested six modifications from the makers of the romantic saga. A 2-minute 12-second shot was asked to be modified. The details of the shot aren’t specified in the cut list. A 1-second visual of Mantralaya was asked to be removed.

The madness of a crazy person also suffered audio cuts. The dialogue ‘sleep with her’ was asked to be removed. At two places, ‘Raavan’ was replaced with ‘villain’. The CBFC’s Examining Committee, in fact, asked the makers to remove all the dialogue belonging to the epic Ramayana. Lastly, ‘food’ was replaced with ‘girls’,

Once these changes were made, The madness of a crazy person was passed with an ‘A’ certificate on October 16. The length of the film, as mentioned on the censor certificate, is 140.17 minutes. In other words, The madness of a crazy person is 2 hours 20 minutes and 17 minutes long. Directed by Milap Zaveri, it stars Harshvardhan Rane and Sonam Bajwa.

interestingly, The madness of a crazy person is the first Diwali release in 22 long years to be A-rated. The last time this occurred was during Diwali 2003. Four films were released in the festival week that year – the period drama cageGovinda’s comic caper Raja BhaiyaTanishaa Mukherji’s horror flick Sssshhh and Vikram Bhatt’s thriller IntehaThe last two were passed with ‘A’ rating by the CBFC.

A year ago, in 2002, Annarthstarring Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Vinod Kambli and others, was given an adults-only rating. In 2001, Kamal Haasan’s ambitious venture Aalavandhanwhich was released in Hindi as Abhaywas also meant only for adults. In 1999, the A-rated schoolstarring Manoj Bajpayee and Raveena Tandon with a special appearance by Shilpa Shetty, was a Diwali release and it clashed with Hum Saath Saath Hain,

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