Monty Python's Life of Brian that the council had not seen the film, and had based their opinion on what they had been told by the Nationwide Festival of Light, a grouping with an evangelical Christian base, of which they knew nothing. Some bans continued into the 21st century. In 2008, Torbay Council finally permitted the film to be shown after it won an online vote for the English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival. In 2009, it was announced that a thirty-year-old ban of the film in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth had finally been lifted, and the subsequent showing was attended by Terry Jones
Student of the Year very well and collected nett in its first week. The film had a moderate second weekend where it earned around nett. "Student of the Year" had a drop in its second and third week where it had collected and respectively to make a total of in three weeks. As per the latest updates, "Student of the Year" stands at an all India collection of after four weeks run at the box office. "Student of the Year" collected about US$1.25 million, which Box Office India thought was a poor showing for having been released on 300 screens. It collected around $1.85