{"id":309604,"date":"2026-01-29T10:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309604\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:32:08","slug":"cbfc-initially-considered-giving-jana-nayagan-a-u-a-16-certificate-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309604\/","title":{"rendered":"CBFC initially considered giving Jana Nayagan a U\/A 16+ certificate: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debate around the lack of censorship clearance for Vijay&#8217;s final film, <strong>Jana Nayagan<\/strong>, directed by H Vinoth, is becoming more intense, with the leak of a letter from a Censor Board representative to the film&#8217;s producer Venkat K Narayana of KVN Productions. According to the letter, dated December 22, 2025, the board initially decided to grant a U\/A 16+ certificate for <strong>Jana Nayagan<\/strong>, calling it &#8220;suitable for Unrestricted Public Exhibition&#8221;, after its examining committee has viewed the film. The letter further states that audiences should decide whether or not to take those aged below 16 years to the theatres for a screening of the film, and that the makers should apply the cuts that the board suggested to it. &#8220;You are accordingly requested to carry out the given excisions \/ modifications, so that the film may be sanctioned for unrestricted public exhibition, after verification that the excisions are in order,&#8221; the letter added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The debate around the lack of censorship clearance for Vijay&#8217;s final film, Jana Nayagan, directed by H Vinoth,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[127517,18,117,139011,19,17,134168,327,13287,151521],"class_list":{"0":"post-309604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-censor-board","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-h-vinoth","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-jana-nayagan","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-vijay","17":"tag-vijays-final-film"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115977934844370173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309604","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=309604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}