Highlights Tandav has become the first web-series which has been guided by the MIB to regulate its content.
Although the central government is backing the move to form a separate self-regulatory board for OTT content.
Another web-series A Suitable Boy by Mira Nair irked many for hurting religious sentiments.
New Delhi: Filmmaker Ali Abbas Zafar s debut web-series Tandav has found itself in a middle of controversy pool, after a section of people alleged that it hurt their religious sentiments.
After receiving ample complaints about the political drama, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has directed the makers of Tandav to delete the controversial scenes. This is for the first time that changes have been implemented in the content of an OTT release.
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It remains unclear whether the police will also summon actor Saif Ali Khan and Amazon Prime Video India executives for inquiry.
On Friday, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting directed the makers of Tandav to delete controversial scenes from the web series.
This is the first time that any OTT project has been ordered to implement changes.
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh police recorded statements of ‘Tandav’ web series director Ali Abbas Zafar, writer Gaurav Solanki and producer Himanshu Krishna Mehra on Friday (January 22) in relation to the case filed in Lucknow against them and others.
The trio recorded their statements in Mumbai’s Andheri after UP police visited their homes on Thursday (January 21). A team of UP police had arrived at the residences of Zafar and Solanki in Mumbai. However, as their houses were locked the officers pasted notices, asking them to appear before the Investigation Officer (IO) in Lucknow on January 27.
BJP Secretary, MP from Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh had demanded action against the makers of the show
Two days after an FIR was registered against the producers of Mirzapur, the Indian Supreme Court on Thursday issued a notice to and sought responses from the show s makers, producer and Amazon Prime Video.
The FIR was registered based on a plea alleging
Mirzapur was hurting ‘religious sentiments’ and spoiling the image of Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur district, reported the
Hindustan Times.
The FIR named producers Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar and Bhaumik Gondaliya under IPC sections 295 A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of the IPC along with sections of the Information Technology (IT) Act.
Tandav controversy: UP Police records statements of director Ali Abbas Zafar, two others
However, it is not clear yet whether Amazon officials and the rest of the actors, including Saif Ali Khan, will be questioned or not. Tandav poster
Updated: Jan 22, 2021, 06:51 PM IST
On Friday, Uttar Pradesh police officials recorded the statements of web series Tandav director Ali Abbas Zafar, writer Gaurav Solanki and producer Himanshu Mehra in Mumbai s Andheri area.
Earlier on Thursday, the UP police had visited the residence of the above-mentioned persons, but unfortunately, they were not found there. Subsequently, Zafar, Solanki and Mehra s statements in the Tandav controversy were recorded on Friday.
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