{"id":277719,"date":"2026-01-10T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/277719\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:38:09","slug":"ram-gopal-varma-slams-cbfc-after-madras-hc-stay-on-vijays-jana-nayagan-mari-selvaraj-calls-censor-delay-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/277719\/","title":{"rendered":"Ram Gopal Varma slams CBFC after Madras HC stay on Vijay’s Jana Nayagan; Mari Selvaraj calls censor delay \u2018injustice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

H Vinoth\u2019s Vijay<\/a>-starrer Jana Nayagan is indefinitely postponed from its Pongal release as the film awaits certification from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). After the Madras High Court granted an interim stay against the previous verdict asking the CBFC to hand over certification, filmmakers Ram Gopal Varma and Mari Selvaraj took to social media to share their thoughts. (Also Read: Jana Nayagan producer says Vijay \u2018deserves farewell he earned\u2019 amid \u2018extremely difficult\u2019 legal tussle with CBFC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"RamRam Gopal Varma called the CBFC ‘outdated’ amid Vijay’s issues with the CBFC.Ram Gopal Varma calls CBFC \u2018irrelevant\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

RGV <\/a>took to his X (formerly Twitter) account to pen a long note on the CBFC. \u201cNot in the context of just @Actor_Vijay \u2018s #JanaNayagan \u2018s censor issues but in an overall manner, it is truly foolish to think that the censor board is still relevant today,\u201d he wrote, adding, \u201cIt has long outlived it\u2019s purpose, but it\u2019s being kept alive out of laziness to debate it\u2019s relevance now, and it is the film industry as a whole which is mainly responsible for this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The filmmaker also pointed out that with the advent of internet a \u201812-year-old can watch a terrorist execution\u2019 and a \u20189-year-old can stumble upon hardcore porn\u2019. \u201cAll of it is available instantly, anonymously, and without a gatekeeper,\u201d he pointed out. The filmmaker also mentioned how YouTube channels are filled with videos of people using abusive language. \u201cAnd in this reality, for the honourable censor board to believe that cutting a word in a film, trimming a shot, or blurring a cigarette will \u201cprotect society\u201d is a joke,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

RGV also explained why he believes the CBFC is irrelevant today, writing, \u201cWhat the censor board actually does now is not protection, but only theatrics. It\u2019s a ritual of authority in Oscar worthy performances where scissors replace thinking, and moral pretence moves around in a disguise called responsibility. The same society that freely scrolls through graphic violence on social media suddenly becomes \u201cconcerned\u201d when a filmmaker shows something in a theatre. This hypocrisy is dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the note, the filmmaker also wrote, \u201cContinuing to defend the relevance of the censor board today is like insisting on a watchman for a building whose walls have already been broken and everyone can see what\u2019s inside.\u201d He ended the note with, \u201cSo instead of raising this topic once in a while over a particular film, the fight should be with that particular system of thinking which created the censor board.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mari Selvaraj calls out CBFC\u2019s \u2018injustice\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mari <\/a>also penned a note in Tamil on X, calling out the perceived injustice by the CBFC towards Jana Nayagan. \u201cThe censor board’s action against the film Janyayan is a blatant injustice. As a creator, let us raise our voices to eradicate the rapidly spreading fear of our democracy and our creative freedom by opposing this injustice. #JanaNayagan #CBFC,\u201d wrote the Bison director.<\/p>\n

After court hearings on January 6 and 7 in the Madras HC<\/a>, Justice PT Asha directed the CBFC to grant clearance to Jana Nayagan on January 9. After the certification board challenged it, within hours, a division bench comprising Chief Justice MM Shrivastava and G Arul Murugan granted an interim stay against the single judge’s verdict. The matter was posted to January 21. <\/p>\n

Amid the setback, numerous film personalities, including Sibi Sathyaraj, Ravi Mohan, Karthik Subbaraj, Shivathmika Rajashekar, Silambarasan TR, and several others, have extended their support to Vijay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"H Vinoth\u2019s Vijay-starrer Jana Nayagan is indefinitely postponed from its Pongal release as the film awaits certification from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[127514,18,117,19,17,134168,100242,327,51184,13287],"class_list":{"0":"post-277719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-cbfc","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jana-nayagan","14":"tag-mari-selvaraj","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-ram-gopal-varma","17":"tag-vijay"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115871082270242950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}