Overview

• India’s CBFC granted a U/A certificate with no visual cuts, asking for the muting of “church,” “father” and “bloody,” and the subtitle change of “bastard” to “idiot.”
• The film’s runtime is listed at 136 minutes, with theatrical release set for August 29 under Maddock Films and director Tushar Jalota.
• Advance bookings opened with roughly 10,000 tickets sold in the first 24 hours, and trade projections suggest a day-one range in the vicinity of ₹6–10 crore.
• Criticism over Janhvi Kapoor’s Malayalam diction and cultural portrayal continues online, with influencers reporting removed posts and copyright strikes tied to critique videos.
• Janhvi Kapoor and Sidharth Malhotra rejected comparisons to Chennai Express, noting different settings and that her character is half-Malayali, half-Tamilian.