Streaming service Netflix on Thursday, eliminated Annapoorani, the film starring Nayanthara from the platform. The choice was made after Hindu right-wing teams kicked up controversy that sure scenes within the film harm Hindu non secular sentiments.
Zee5, the producers of Annapoorani additionally issued an apology to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. The apology letter acknowledged, “We’ve no intentions as co-producers of the Hindu and Brahmin communities and would hereby wish to apologise for the inconvenience and harm brought on to the respective communities.”
The letter additionally talked about that the movie can be edited to take away the components that have been deemed offensive. The film already had a theatrical launch in Tamil Nadu in December. Annapoorani follows the story of a girl from the Brahmin caste, who goes on to turn into a prime chef. Nevertheless, right-wing activists against scenes within the film, the place she eats and cooks meat, and befriends a Muslim man; and the movie has dialogue that means that Lord Ram ate meat.
On January 8, Ramesh Solanki, founding father of the Hindu IT Cell, filed an FIR filed towards Netflix India Monica Shergill, actors Nayanthara and Jai, writer-director Nilesh Krishnaa, producers Jatin Sethi, R Ravindran, and Punit Goenka and Zee Studios Chief Enterprise Officer Shariq Patel.
