NEW DELHI: A police complaint has been registered against Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan’s web series ‘Tandav’ for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus.
The local official from India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party also threatened to launch a protest at Amazon Prime’s office in Mumbai. The Modi government has formed a pamphlet against a web series called ‘Tandav’ in which Saif Ali Khan and Dimple Kapadia are playing the lead roles.
The Modi government has forced the production team of the web series to apologize unconditionally, while in another incident, comedian Munawar Farooqi was arrested for an unsolved crime, prior to his arrest, he was abducted.
As per the Indian media, the director, producer, and writer of ‘Tandav’ and Amazon’s head of India Original Content have been accused in the case of promoting religious enmity and defiling a place of worship.
Tandav features an array of characters scheming for political power. The political drama also drew the ire of other lawmakers from the BJP, 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.
Moreover, the cast and crew of a apologised after politicians from the governing party called the show insensitive to Hindus. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting told the cast and crew it received “a large number of grievances and petitions … with serious concerns and apprehensions” over the series, director Ali Abbas Zafar wrote in a post on Instagram and Twitter.
“Tandav is a work of fiction and any resemblance to acts and persons and events is purely coincidental,” he added in a statement. “The cast and crew of ‘Tandav’…unconditionally apologise if it has unintentionally hurt anybody’s sentiments.”
