3 min readKochiApr 14, 2026 02:47 PM IST Actor Trisha Krishnan reportedly received a bomb threat at her residence in the Teynampet area of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Upon receiving information about the threat, the local police and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) rushed to her home and conducted an extensive search of the...
3 min readCoimbatoreApr 14, 2026 02:17 PM IST The Coimbatore police arrested a cable operator for illegally broadcasting H Vinoth’s upcoming, much-delayed film Jana Nayagan, starring ‘Thalapathy’ Vijay, on a local television channel. The channel belongs to the cable network Rasi, owned by S Palanisamy, a 44-year-old resident of Karumathampatti. The illegal broadcast took place...
3 min readHyderabadApr 13, 2026 09:08 PM IST The Southern India Film Editors Association came forward on Monday to address one of the more damaging controversies to hit Tamil cinema recently, the online leak of the much-anticipated Vijay film Jana Nayagan, before its official theatrical release. Gopikrishna, president of the association, said that editor Pradeep...
4 min readHyderabadApr 13, 2026 07:07 PM IST It took two tweets and one reply to start and finish a rumour in Tamil film circles. Archana Kalpathi, Creative Producer of AGS Entertainment and CEO of AGS Cinemas, posted a welcome message on social media for 21-year-old music composer Sai Abhyankkar. “Super happy to welcome the...
4 min readHyderabadApr 13, 2026 06:43 PM IST Some songs take a winding road to reach an audience. “Enakenna Yaarum Illaye” took ten years. The Tamil track was produced by Deepan Boopathy in 2014 as part of the album Aakko, a project tied to a Tamil film that ultimately never made it to theatres. Composed...
3 min readHyderabadApr 13, 2026 03:04 PM IST Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and Jana Sena Party founder Pawan Kalyan sat down with the youth of the state at Janasenani with GenZ, an open interaction event designed to give young people direct access to one of the state’s most prominent political figures. The event covered...
4 min readNew DelhiApr 13, 2026 11:28 AM IST Vijay’s much-anticipated final film, Jana Nayagan, was recently leaked online, ahead of its theatrical release. The actor, who will take a political plunge right after, has been awaiting the release of his movie for over three months. It was postponed after the Central Board of Film...
5 min readHyderabadApr 12, 2026 03:40 PM IST RK Selvamani, President of the Film Employees Federation of South India, has come out strongly against the pre-release leak of Vijay-starrer Jana Nayagan, calling it the single largest robbery in the country and expressing deep frustration that the incident has not triggered the kind of national outrage...
4 min readHyderabadApr 12, 2026 11:54 AM IST When Jana Nayagan surfaced on piracy platforms ahead of its theatrical release, most of Tamil cinema rallied around the film’s producers with messages of solidarity and calls to boycott pirated content. However, Tamil filmmaker and actor Ameer took a different path. He watched the leaked footage and...
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has firmly rejected claims that it was responsible for the leak of Vijay’s film Jana Nayagan, calling all such reports “baseless and misleading.” The clarification came a day after scenes and reportedly the full film appeared on social media and torrrent websites, setting off a wave of outrage...
