Days after Nayanthara’s recent release Annapoorani was accused of hurting religious sentiments, it was removed from the OTT platform Netflix. As per reports, one of the producers of the film has written to Vishwa Hindu Parishad stating that the movie will be removed from the platform until edited. Now, Mahesh Bhatt has reacted to this.
Mahesh told Zoom, “We globally live in very sensitive times and people who are in connection with the business of mass entertainment, are compelled to reach out to to the optimal number of people. Only then can you get what you call resounding success. Over the years, the world has drastically changed and earlier the responses of our movies would come to us filtered through the gatekeepers – the mainstream media.”
He continued, “Now, in this digital age, each individual has access to exhale and express without any inhibition with her or her responses to anything more popular. Any entertainer or a storyteller a filmmaker has never been more vulnerable, at any point in history, as it is today. To impose the world should be like this is a utopian idea. The question is not should it be this way. The question is what are we dealing with?”
“They’re dealing with responses which can flare up emotions and then what you have spent a sizeable amount of your time on your life making is knocked off the air right now. Whether that should be done or not be done. That’s for the esteemed judges of the courts to decide,” he concluded.
Mahesh said that every filmmaker has a sensor within themselves and the platforms also take appropriate measures. Hence, no one deliberately tries to hurt anyone’s sentiments.
Annapoorani, which hit theatres on December 1, was released on the OTT giant on December 29. It was headlined by Nayanthara.
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