Overview
- The apex court declined to hear KVN Productions’ challenge to a Madras High Court stay and told the makers to pursue the appeal before the division bench.
- The bench asked the High Court to endeavor to decide the case on January 20, and it granted no interim certification.
- Jana Nayagan missed its planned January 9 Pongal release and remains uncertified by the CBFC.
- The dispute arose after an examining committee recommended 27 cuts and a U/A, which the producers implemented, and the CBFC chairperson then referred the film to a revising committee following a member’s complaint.
- A single judge ordered immediate clearance on January 9, but a division bench stayed that order the same day; the Supreme Court criticized the “blistering pace” of the case and heard claims of commercial harm, including 5,000 theatres booked.