INDIA: An Indian organization, Maharashtra Karni Sena has offered Rs 1 billion for ‘slitting tongue of Tandav makers for ‘insulting Hindu Gods’.
As per details, Kari Sena issued violent threats against an Amazon Prime show Tandav starring Saif Ali Khan and Dimple Kapadia among others.
Amazon Prime’s Tandav starring Saif Ali Khan in lead roles has been creating uproar all across the media channels, for its controversial remarks to making fun of Hindu God, however, now the Karni Sena, that has a history of making objections to Bollywood films and shows has said that apology is not enough.
तांडव के कलाकारों और निर्देशकों की जीभ काटकर लाने वालों को 1 करोड़ का इनाम देगी करणी सेना : महाराष्ट्र करणी सेना pic.twitter.com/Yb9xaUzxDn
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Earlier, the series’ team had issued an apology and said: “‘Tandav’ is a work of fiction and any resemblance to acts and persons and events are purely coincidental.
They said the cast and crew did not have any intention to offend the sentiments of any individual, caste, community, race, religion or religious beliefs or insult or outrage any institution, political party or person, living or dead.
The cast and crew of ‘Tandav’ take cognizance of the concerns expressed by the people and unconditionally apologize if it has unintentionally hurt anybody’s sentiments.”
The apology came after a local official from India’s ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), registered a police complaint against the web series and threatened to launch a protest at Amazon’s office in Mumbai.
Protests against Amazon.com were organized to warn it not to show scenes insulting Hindu gods and goddesses, Ram Kadam, a BJP member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly, said in a tweet after filing the police complaint in Mumbai.
The political drama “Tandav” also drew the ire of other lawmakers from the Narendra Modi-led party, causing fresh controversy for the e-commerce giant which last year had to withdraw dozens of rugs and doormats depicting Hindu gods from its international Amazon.com platform after a backlash in India.
BJP Member of Parliament Manoj Kotak, in a letter to India’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar dated Saturday, said that the makers of Tandav “have deliberately mocked Hindu gods and disrespected Hindu religious sentiments”.
He called on the ministry to immediately form an authority to regulate streaming platforms, and in the meantime called for a ban on the series. India late last year brought streaming platforms under the oversight of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and said it plans to regulate their content.
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