“Tandav”, Amazon Prime’s new net collection, faces legal motion with the Uttar Pradesh police submitting a case in opposition to the makers and the streaming service over alleged insult to Hindu gods and a high aide warning of arrests.
The case was filed hours after the centre’s Ministry of Data and Broadcasting reportedly sought a response from Amazon Prime on a criticism filed by Maharashtra BJP MLA Ram Kadam.
The director, producer and author of the Saif Ali Khan-Dimple Kapadia starrer “Tandav” and Amazon’s head of India Authentic Content material have been accused within the case of selling spiritual enmity and defiling a spot of worship.
The criticism has been filed at Lucknow’s Hazratganj police station by a sub-inspector who can also be posted there.
Quickly after the case was registered, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s media adviser Shalabh Mani Tripathi shared a duplicate of it on Twitter.
“There isn’t a tolerance for taking part in with folks’s sentiments in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh. A severe case has been registered in opposition to your complete crew of Tandav, which is spreading hate within the guise of low-cost net collection. Put together for arrest,” he wrote in Hindi.
जन भावनाओं के साथ खिलवाड़ बर्दाश्त नहीं, घटिया वेब सीरीज की आड़ मं नफरत फैलाने वाली वेब सीरीज तांडव की पूरी टीम के खिलाफ योगीजी के उत्तर प्रदेश में गंभीर धाराओं में मामला दर्ज, जल्द गिरफ्तारी की तैयारी !! pic.twitter.com/V9ZewGNOHw
— Shalabh Mani Tripathi (@shalabhmani) January 18, 2021
The policeman stated he filed the criticism after he alerted senior officers about quite a few Twitter feedback essential of Tandav’s content material, and was ordered to look at it.
The criticism states that 17 minutes into the primary episode, “folks dressed up in a really dangerous method to characterize Hindu gods and goddesses and have been proven to talk in a really uncalled for language… that hurts spiritual sentiments”.
In the identical episode there are “conversations that result in caste battle, there are comparable scenes in lots of different episodes. Within the net collection, the character of the individual occupying the excessive put up of India’s Prime Minister has been proven in a really indecent method… The collection depicts decrease and better castes and scenes that insult ladies, and the intent… appears to be to harm spiritual emotions of 1 group and to unfold battle”, the criticism reads.
The case in Uttar Pradesh was filed hours after the centre’s Ministry of Data and Broadcasting reportedly sought a response from Amazon Prime on a criticism filed by Maharashtra BJP MLA Ram Kadam.
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