The Union Budget for 2025-26 will be tabled in Parliament on February 1 – a Sunday – and the Economic Survey, which is a precursor to the budget document, will be presented by Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on January 29.

Ultimately, ‘Jana Nayagan’ will get a certification and will be released. But the damage – or the momentum – may already be inflicted. And, when it does, all this courtroom drama will only bolster its opening at the box office.

At least 12 people were killed and 35 others injured on Friday after a private passenger bus plunged nearly 400 metres into a deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh.