GV Prakash's Immortal was aiming for that very same July 23 slot before the makers quietly pushed it back without picking a new one.Sundeep Kishan's Sigma, and that's the one everyone's really watching, was set for July 31 but industry chatter says it could slide into August too. It happens to be a heist thriller, and it's also the directorial debut of Vijay's own son, Jason Sanjay.Eight days used to feel like enough breathing room between two releases.Not anymore, not when one of them is Vijay's farewell film pulling screens across Tamil Nadu and overseas. Lokesh's DC and Mysskin's Sathyavan Savithiri, starring Keerthy Suresh, are reportedly eyeing safer weekends of their own too, and nobody involved with Sigma has said anything on the record, though Lyca Productions hasn't announced a change, the whispers keep getting louder.Jana Nayagan was originally supposed to arrive back in January, only to get stuck in a legal fight with the censor board over its certificate.
Directed by H Vinoth, the film is widely believed, though never officially confirmed, to borrow its bones from the Telugu hit Bhagavanth Kesari, with Anirudh Ravichander back scoring the music and Pooja Hegde, Bobby Deol, Mamitha Baiju, Prakash Raj, Gautham Vasudev Menon,Narain and Priyamani filling out a cast that reads like a who's who of the industry, and Vijay is doing all this while running Tamil Nadu as Chief Minister, which is its own strange story nobody's really talking about enough.The film got hit with piracy trouble too, leaked online back in April and viewed by close to 1.2 crore people before authorities managed to block it,with police arresting several people over the case. Vijay confirmed the July 23 date himself, alongside a new poster of him in a police uniform holding a katana.
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