‘Tandav’ makers issue apology
Security stepped up outside offices of Saif Ali Khan and Amazon Prime in Mumbai
New
Jan. Faced with an FIR, the fear of arrest and loud calls for a boycott for its alleged depiction of Hindu deities, the cast and crew of Amazon Prime Video’s starry political saga Tandav on Monday issued an unconditional apology if their fictional show had unintentionally hurt sentiments.
A day after the Information and Broadcasting Ministry sought an explanation from Amazon Prime Video and BJP MP Manoj Kotak wrote to minister Prakash Javadekar, trouble escalated for the Ali Abbas Zafar directed thriller with an FIR against its makers in Lucknow and several politicians and others adding their voice to the ‘ban Tandav’ chorus.
As security was stepped up outside the offices of its star Saif Ali Khan and Amazon Prime in Mumbai, a four-member team of the Uttar Pradesh police left for the city and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s media advisor
Delhi/Lucknow, 18:
Shalabhmani Tripathi said the makers will have to “pay a price for hurting religious sentiments” by depicting Hindu gods in an objectionable manner.
UP Police has left for Mumbai, that too in a car. There are strong sections in the FIR. Remain prepared,(you) will have to pay a price for hurting
religious sentiments,” Tripathi said in his tweet in which he tagged director Zafar, producer Himanshu Krishna Mehra, writer Gaurav Solanki and actors Saif Ali Khan and Zeeshan Ayyub.
At the end of a tense day that saw debate escalate around the show, which
balances intrigue in Delhi’s corridors of power and touches on current issues such as student unrest and farmer protests, the cast and crew' of Tandav, which literally translates to ‘dance of destruction’, issued a statement in a bid to defuse the situation.