"Salman has requested us to ensure that the film doesn't turn out to be too long because he says that the audience is not used to such long films. He knows that the days of Hum Aapke Hain Kaun is over when the audience had the inclination to sit for hours to watch a film. He wants the film to be around 2.5 hours," says a member of the production team.
Salman Khan also confirmed that he genuinely wants to limit his film within a specific time frame and he doesn't matter how many cuts the movie goes through to keep the time limits. Says Salman on his blog, "When you watch a period film, for some strange reason, it is believed that the film is going to be three hours plus, with flowery dialogues, very heavy with no humor in it but I assure you Veer is not like them," he says, adding: "We are trying to keep the film to about 2 hrs 35 minutes approx. There is so much of scale and bigness in the film that we didn't want to compromise and lose out on anything."
According to sources, the script that Salman had written had to go through a lot of changes mainly because of the time factor and grandeur of it. "The film had been five hours long had we stuck to the original script that Salman had written. Also, the film's budget would have been not less than Rs 100 crores.
Interestingly, Salman was fine with the massive changes the script went through," he adds.
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