Sharwanand’s Bhogi Postponed Days Before Release as CBFC Refers Film to Revising Committee

Sharwanand’s Bhogi will not release this week. The period action drama, directed by Sampath Nandi, has been officially postponed days before its scheduled theatrical debut, after the Central Board of Film Certification referred the film to its revising committee instead of issuing a clearance certificate.

Cinema Express reports the makers have announced the delay and will reveal a new release date soon. The development has frozen the film’s entire promotional plan: the trailer, which was scheduled to be unveiled on Saturday, is on hold, as is the pre-release event the team had planned. A source told the publication the team will decide its next course of action once the film receives CBFC clearance.

The timing is what stings. Bhogi was one of the most talked-about Telugu releases of the month, a pan-India period action drama set in the early 1960s along the Maharashtra–Adilabad border, in the fictional village of Boggula Gutta. Sharwanand plays Kammari Ganga, a blacksmith and labourer who takes on powerful landlords, in a rugged transformation the teaser — released in early October — showed off to strong response. Anupama Parameswaran and Dimple Hayathi co-star, with Kishor Kumar on camera and Bheems Ceciroleo scoring. The film is produced by KK Radhamohan under Sri Sathya Sai Arts and presented by Lakshmi Radhamohan, and was to release in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi.

A referral to the revising committee is not a ban, and it is worth saying so plainly: it means the examining committee could not agree on certification and the film goes to a second panel for re-examination. But it is also not a formality — the committee can demand cuts or changes, and there is no fixed timeline for its decision, which is why the makers have pulled the release rather than gamble on a last-minute clearance.

There is a silver lining in the calendar. The November 13 frame Bhogi vacates is crowded — Jr NTR’s Itlu Arjuna and the JioHotstar series Student of the Year: After Dark arrive the same day, while Ranabaali hits Netflix — so a later date could give Bhogi a clearer run, if the clearance comes quickly. For Sharwanand, whose first pan-India film this is, the stakes are real: the teaser built genuine curiosity around a star reinventing himself in a raw, violent world. The film’s other November 13 release now has the date to itself: https://filmverse.in/itlu-arjuna-trailer-jr-ntr-unveils-aniesh-anaswara-rajan-november-13/

Watch the official teaser below:

Bhogi’s new release date will be announced soon.

Source: Cinema Express, Idlebrain and IndiaGlitz.