Our film received only three cuts from CBFC: Akshay Kumar

TIL Desk Bollywood/ Akshay Kumar today said his film “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha” has been cleared by the Central Board of Film Certification with only three cuts. There were reports that the film certification body had asked for eight cuts but Akshay said reports were not correct.

“I read somewhere that we have been given eight or nine cuts. But it is not true. We have been given three verbal cuts. I was surprised to read the news about eight cuts in the film,” the actor told reporters during a promotional event for the film here.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan forms the basic premise of “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha” but Akshay said he did not do the film solely on the merit of the script. The 49-year-old actor will be seen playing a husband trying to win his wife back by building a toilet for her in the house.

“The script of the film came to me. The writer narrated me the story. I made the film as I liked the script and not because someone asked me to make it. It is different that when Modi ji came to office, he began the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’. Our film is similar to his mission,” he said.