Days after Dulquer Salmaan’s latest film ‘Varane Avashyamundu’ was released on digital platforms, it came under attack from a section of people in Tamil Nadu, for a particular portion which ‘insulted’ LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhaaran.
In the film, Suresh Gopi, who plays the role of Major Unnikrishnan, he calls his pet dog ‘Prabhakara’. This has not gone well with a section of social media users in Tamil Nadu, who allege that this scene was intentionally made to tarnish the image of Velupillai Prabhakaran.
Following this, Dulquer posted on his social media page, “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. I apologise to all of the good and kind tamizh people who felt offended. I have never intended to offend anyone through my films or my words. It’s genuinely a misunderstanding.
P.S. Some of you are being extremely abusive, threatening, deliberately hurtful and insulting family along with us. I wish that weren’t so.”
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