In what is a first for producer Sajid Nadiadwala and Akshay Kumar, the censor board has ordered as many as five verbal cuts to Housefull 3. This is the first time that the farcical franchise and also Nadiadwala and Akshay’s comedies have gone through such a chopping process.

Says a source, “There were innuendos and abusive words that were asked to be removed. Also, there was a song in which words were found ‘objectionable’. The Housefull team however, had come to the censor board with alternative words for the songs as they had anticipated objections to certain words. So they immediately replaced those words with new ones and took the censor certification.” Housefull 3 has now been granted a ‘U/A’ certificate.