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Chennai, Feb 1 (IANS) The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has now cleared director G Prajith’s comedy entertainer ‘Ashakal Aayiram’, featuring actors Jayaram and Kalidas Jayaram in the lead, for release with a clean ‘U’ certificate. The film is being produced by Gokulam Gopalan and Krishnamoorthy under the banners Sree Gokulam Movies and Gokulam Productions.Taking to its Instagram page to make the announcement, Sree Gokulam Movies wrote, “#AshakalAayiram Censored Clean U. Ashakal Aayi…

Chennai, Jan 21 (IANS) The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has now cleared director Vijaya Kumaaran’s eagerly awaited horror thriller ‘Granny’, featuring veteran actress Vadivukkarasi in the lead, for release with a clean U/A certificate. On Wednesday, the makers of the film, Vijaya Mary Universal Media, released a poster that confirmed the development.It may be recalled that actor Vijay Sethupathi had only recently released the film’s title as ‘Granny’. In fact, on January 8 this yea…

New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a plea filed by the producer of the Tamil film ‘Jana Nayagan’, starring actor-politician Vijay, seeking directions to the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to grant a censor certificate for the film’s release.In its order, a Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih noted that the Division Bench of the Madras High Court is already seized of the matter and is scheduled to hear the appeal on J…

Chennai, Jan 9 (IANS) The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has cleared director Vignesh Karthick’s upcoming entertainer ‘Hotspot 2 Much’, featuring actress Priya Bhavani Shankar in the lead, for release with a U/A certificate. On Friday, the makers of the film released a poster that confirmed that the Censor Board had cleared the film for release.A trailer of the film that was released recently by the makers has only gone on to add to the excitement of fans and filmbuffs.The trailer sh…

Chennai, Jan 9 (IANS) The Madras High Court on Friday directed the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to promptly issue a U/A 16+ certificate to ‘Jana Nayagan’, the Vijay-starrer film whose theatrical release was postponed due to delays in censorship clearance.Directed by H. Vinoth, ‘Jana Nayagan’ had completed post-production and was submitted to the CBFC in December.During the examination process, one member of the examining committee raised objections, alleging that certain scenes hur…

Chennai, Jan 4 (IANS) Director Mohan G Kshatriyan has now disclosed that his upcoming historical action drama ‘Draupathi 2’, featuring actors Richard Rishi and Rakshana Indusudan in the lead, was shot in a matter of just 31 days. Talking to IANS, the director said, “We originally wanted to complete shooting in just 30 days. But things always don’t go as planned. So we had to shoot for one extra day.”The director went on to disclose that ‘Draupathi 2’ would start off from ‘Draupathi’. “The durati…

Chennai, Jan 2 (IANS) The makers of director Mohan G Kshatriyan’s historical action drama ‘Draupathi 2’ on Friday released the first look poster of actor Chirag Jani as Mohammad Bin Tughlaq in the film, much to the delight of fans and film buffs. Taking to his X timeline to share the poster of Chirag Jani as Mohammad Bin Tughlaq, director Mohan G Kshatriyan wrote, “Terror Wears A Crown. Unveiling the Delhi Sultanate #MohdBinThugluq…@JaniChiragjani nailed it. Roaring as First-Level Antagonist.”…

Chennai, Jan 2 (IANS) The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has cleared director Mohan G’s eagerly awaited Tamil-Telugu historical drama ‘Draupathi 2’ for release with a ‘U/A’ certificate. Director Mohan G Kshatriyan, who took to his X timeline to share the news, wrote, “Happy New Year greetings. A story untold to us until now.. A post about the dark era of the 14th century in the pages of history.. The history of South India comes alive. #Draupathi2 has been censored.. Coming to theate…