{"id":445043,"date":"2026-01-29T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445043\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:35:08","slug":"cbfc-initially-considered-giving-jana-nayagan-a-u-a-16-certificate-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445043\/","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, Jana Nayagan, 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 Jana Nayagan, 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":445044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,230905,134,209578,47550,344,95894,230906],"class_list":{"0":"post-445043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-censor-board","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-h-vinoth","13":"tag-jana-nayagan","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-vijay","16":"tag-vijays-final-film"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}