Tamil film industry’s reigning ‘Superstar’ Rajinikanth has come in support of actor and film-maker Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam in a letter to his fans on Friday.
The
film fraternity has been by and large quiet in the wake of the ban on
the movie and the subsequent court case at the Madras High Court. The
few reactions that have come so far have been from a few actors who are
active on Twitter. With the letter, Rajinikanth has been the most
prominent voice yet from Tamil Nadu, in support of Kamal Haasan.
In
an open letter to all his Tamil film fans, Rajinikanth has said his
“close friend for 40 years” is incapable of hurting the sentiments of
anyone. Claiming to be very disturbed at the wake of the opposition by
Muslim groups to the release of the movie, the actor pointed out that
the fact that Kamal Haasan screened the movie for a section of Muslim
leaders, even before releasing it in theatres, was clear proof that he
respected the sentiments of the people.
He urged the
aggrieved parties to wait and talk on the issue with Kamal Haasan upon
his return from the US (where the Hindi version of the movie Vishwaroop premiered on Wednesday and the Tamil version Vishwaroopam
premiered on Thursday). He suggested that instead of calling on a total
ban on the release of the movie, the aggrieved parties could ask him to
review only those sequences that caused hurt. “Having learned how he
raised money to finance the Rs.100 crore movie, I am most disturbed.”
Praising
Kamal Haasan as “no ordinary artist,” Rajinikanth said the film-maker
intended to elevate Tamil cinema to a global scale.
He also wished his Muslim fans on the occasion of Milad-un-Nabi.
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