Revealed: The reason for Family Man 2’s delay : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama

Any reference to any political outfit is unofficially banned on all the key Indian OTT platforms. So it got here as a shock to listen to Dalip Tahil’s unmistakable baritone warning of a coalition between the “ISI and the Rebels” within the trailer of The Family Man Season 2. The reference to the ‘Rebels’ has been interpreted by suspicious components as alluding to the ‘LTTE’ The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who fought a bloodied civil battle in Sri Lanka for an unbiased state in opposition to the nation’s Sinhalese inhabitants .

When The Family Man 2 was accomplished and despatched to Amazon, the political reference was perceived as delicate and doubtlessly unstable. “After the Tandav controversy and the ensuing harassment of the Tandav creative and business team, Amazon Prime decided to put a brake on the release of The Family Man Season 2, as Samantha Akkineni’s character of the Tamil rebel is plainly an LTTE offshoot,” says an knowledgeable supply.

Some months in the past Netflix had refused to broadcast Deepa Mehta’s superbly narrated movie Funny Boy for this very reason. They gave Deepa no official reason for the unofficial ban. But it was found from unofficial channels that the movie’s depiction of the Tamil-Sinhalese battle was the reason for its unavailability in India.

With a Tamil politician popping out unambiguously asking for a ban on The Family Man Season 2, Amazon has for now determined to take care of a silence over the difficulty. “There is no reference by name to the LTTE. Samantha Akkineni’s character could be from anywhere. If the protestors make up their minds about The Family Man 2 being anti-Tamil without even seeing the series merely on the basis of the trailer, then the creative freedom of this country is screwed,” says a supply very near the undertaking.

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