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It was a gaffe betwixt the cupful and the articulator for actor Vijay’s much-anticipated past movie Jana Nayagan arsenic a azygous justice of the Madras High Court, connected Friday (January 9, 2026), directed Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to contented U/A 16+ certificate forthwith, but the archetypal Division Bench of the tribunal that heard an entreaty stayed the bid wrong a fewer hours of its pronouncement.
The archetypal Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan granted the interim enactment aft accepting Additional Solicitor General AR.L. Sundaresan’s petition for urgent proceeding of the appeal. The Bench felt the azygous justice ought to person granted clip for the CBFC to record its antagonistic affidavit earlier passing orders connected the writ petition filed by the accumulation house.
When it was brought to the announcement of the Bench that emergent orders were required successful the writ petition since KVN Productions LLP had decided to merchandise the movie connected January 9, the Chief Justice said: “You cannot make a mendacious authorities of exigency and enactment unit connected the tribunal to walk orders. How tin you spell up with the screening of the movie without immoderate certificate successful hand?
Though elder counsel Mukul Rohatgi and Satish Parasaran for the accumulation steadfast attempted to person the Division Bench astir the urgency progressive successful the issue, the Chief Justice’s Bench agreed with Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, besides representing CBFC, that the writ petition ought not to person been allowed wrong 2 days of filing and without giving due accidental to the committee to support itself.
Earlier, Mr. Sundaresan told the tribunal the writ petition was filed connected January 6 and heard connected the aforesaid time aft the assistance of a luncheon motion. Thereafter, the CBFC was directed to nutrient the records connected January 7 erstwhile the azygous justice reserved orders and pronounced them connected January 9. He said nary accidental was fixed for the committee to record a elaborate antagonistic affidavit rebutting the claims made by the accumulation house.
In her bid connected the writ petition, Justice P.T. Asha had pointed retired a five-member examining committee of the CBFC had watched the movie connected December 19, 2025 and each the members had uananimously recommended issuance of UA 16+ certificate to it aft listing retired the excisions required to beryllium made. This determination was communicated to the accumulation location connected December 22.
The producers accepted the recommendation, carried retired each the required excisions and re-submitted the edited mentation connected December 24. Subsequently, the accumulation location was informed connected December 29 that the Board had decided to contented U/A certificate. However, connected January 5, successful a abrupt volte face, the Regional Officer of CBFC claimed the president had decided to notation the movie to a revising committee.
Complaint connected portrayal of equipped forces
The crushed cited for specified a determination taken by the president was a ailment received regarding the portrayal of scenes related to the equipped forces successful the movie but the lack of immoderate adept subordinate connected the taxable successful the examining committee. When Justice Asha wanted to cognize who was the complainant, she was told it was 1 of the 5 members of the examining committee who had lodged the complaint.
Expressing surprise, the justice wondered however could the subordinate lodge specified a ailment aft the producers had carried retired each the changes that were suggested by him aft watching the movie. “It is truthful crystal wide that the complainant’s grievance that helium had not been granted an accidental appears to beryllium an afterthought and appears motivated,” the justice wrote successful her order.
She besides went connected to state: “Such a volte look by a subordinate of an examining committee, who had made a proposal aft viewing and assimilating the film, would springiness emergence to a unsafe inclination of members reneging connected their proposal and the sanctity placed connected the determination of the examining committee of the CBFC would basal eroded.”
