Actor and Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) leader Vijay’s troubles seem to be unending. His movie, Jana Nayagan, may not see the light of the day anytime soon before the election, as the censor board has once again cancelled the film’s review. The revising committee, which was supposed to review the film on March 17, failed to turn up as its members did not choose to fly down from Hyderabad to watch and scrutinise the film.
Initially, the revising committee was scheduled to review the film on March 9, as KVN Productions, the producers of Jana Nayagan, withdrew its writ petition from the Madras High Court and approached the Censor board’s revising committee. The producers chose to withdraw the petition based upon the Supreme Court’s order that the film’s release be stalled until it is revised further. The screening of the film to the revising committee was, however, postponed to March 17, as one of the committee members fell sick and did not turn up.
But again on Tuesday, the two of the members of the revising committee, Jeevitha Rajashekar from Hyderabad and T.S. Nagabharana from Karnataka, who were supposed to travel to Chennai on March 17 to review Jana Nayagan, did not fly down. According to sources, the CBFC office in Chennai doesn’t have a board member as S.Ve.Shekhar’s tenure had ended and no one had replaced him yet. The Jana Nayagan production team, which was waiting for the members since morning till 6 pm on Tuesday, had to return disappointed.
Unlike earlier, the CBFC committee did not choose to inform a fresh date for the review of the film. It may be recalled that one of the OTT platforms that had acquired Jana Nayagan, had cancelled the deal as the deadline for theatrical release ended.