The I&B Ministry’s attempt to block ‘Jana Nayagan’ is an attack on Tamil culture.
Mr Modi, you will never succeed in suppressing the voice of the Tamil people.
Moments from the housewarming, a meaningful milestone and a dream come true, shared with family and friends who made it even more special ✨
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who was present and turned this day into a beautiful memory. Special gratitude to Thalapathy Vijay for gracing the occasion and inaugurating the house.
Alhamdulillah for this moment, and thank you for all the doa 🤲🏻
#DAM #AM #newhome #newbeginnings #dream
I have observed one thing while working with people from the US/UK:
They explore their work life much more than we Indians do.
One of my teammates started his career as a travel agent, then moved to software engineering, later switched to the medical field, and is now back in health AI.
This is not so common in India, where people usually stick to the same field in which they studied.
Is it because of the fear of learning new things and having to start everything all over again?
Guys let me say this TAMIL CINEMA doesn't jus revolve around Loki, Atlee and Nelson..
FYI, Loki is not worried about LCU universe this tat don't cry about, its all about fcking money..
Remember @lee jus went ahead gave a BB wid SRK
JUS WAKE UP folks !!
#AALoki#AA23xLK7
Iconic Pongal Clash Kollywood 2023 - 'Varisu' vs 'Thunivu' on this day (11th January)
#Varisu - ₹304 crore
#Thunivu - ₹195 crore aprx
Varisu led the clash with ₹110 crore difference over Thunivu Globally! 'Career Best Blockbuster' then for @Actorvijay & #Ajith respectively with a combined ₹500 crore gross. Detailed territorial breakdown below,
CENSOR BOARD is OUTDATED
Not in the context of just @Actor_Vijay ‘s #JanaNayagan ‘s censor issues but in an overall manner, it is truly foolish to think that the censor board is still relevant today
It has long outlived it’s purpose, but it’s being kept alive out of laziness to debate it’s relevance now , and it is the film industry as a whole which is mainly responsible for this
We live in a time where a 12-year old with a phone can watch a terrorist execution filmed on a GoPro, a 9-year-old can stumble upon hardcore porn, and a bored retiree can binge extremist propaganda, indulge in conspiracy theories , from anywhere in the world, uncut, uncensored, algorithmically pushed. All of it is available instantly, anonymously, and without a gatekeeper.
At the same time, everybody in every wake of society speak in abusive language from new channels to YouTubers and from other apps ..If you quote that age old belief that cinema is a powerful medium , don’t ignore the fact that the social media has far more reach than cinema .and it is full of political venom, communal poison, character assassinations, live, uncensored shouting matches in the name of debates.
And 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 “protect society.” is a Joke
The censor board was born in an era of scarcity when images were rare, access was limited, and the state controlled the media . Cinema halls were crowd points. Newspapers had editors. Television had schedules. Control made sense then.
But today, any form of a control is impossible because no one can no longer decide what people should or should not see
In such times as now, censorship doesn’t prevent exposure… it only insults the viewers .
We are supposed to have smartness to decide who should rule us but not what we want to see or hear ???
What the censor board actually does now is not protection, but only theatrics . It’s 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 “concerned” when a filmmaker shows something in a theatre
This hypocrisy is dangerous
Censorship assumes people are children forever as if they aren’t even aware what all things children have access to?
Cinema is not meant to be a classroom where lessons are taught . They are mirrors , view points , expressions and opinions meant to entertain
The job of the authorities is not to edit or cut them out, but to trust citizens enough to decide for themselves ,which is the main point of freedom of speech and expression, guaranteed under the constitution
If the argument is “think of the children or adults who are like children “it takes very less intelligence to understand that they cannot be protected by blunt scissors wielded by committees ,whose own personal tastes pass off as public morality also not to forget their bias and agendas .
Age classification makes sense. Warnings of the content makes sense. Censorship does not.
Continuing 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’s inside
The world has already moved on to so many platforms which are unfiltered and unsupervised and so the painful question is whether the authorities have the courage to admit that they are obsolete, and more than that, whether we as a film industry collectively have the will to question them on the same
So 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
The release of Vijay’s final film ‘Jana Nagayan’ has been delayed due to “due to unavoidable circumstances beyond our control,” the production company announces.
It was supposed to release on January 9th.