Dulquer Salmaan had to apologise

Dulquer Salmaan starrer Varane Avashyamund has been courting controversies since its debut on Netflix. The latest controversy involves a joke, which has been interpreted as an attack on slain LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran by a section of the Tamil audience.

Following the outrage, the ‘Mahanati’ actor has come out with an explanation. He explained the context in a long Twitter post. The ‘Prabhakara’ reference pertains to an old Malayalam movie titled ‘Pattanapravesham’, in which a character addressed Karamana Janardhanan Nair as Prabhakara.

Dulquer’s statement read, “A lot of people have brought to my notice that the Prabhakaran joke in Varane Avashyamund is insulting to the Tamizh people. It was not intentional. The joke is a reference to an older Malayalam film Pattana Pravesham and is a common Meme in Kerala. It is a common name in Kerala as well so it wasn’t directed at any person living or dead as our disclaimer mentions in the beginning of the film. Most people reacting are doing so without watching the film and are trying to spread hate. Hating on me and my director Anoop we can accept. Kindly keep it to us and not our fathers or senior actors from the film.”

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