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Sad, Alarming to Make Actors Responsible for Fictional Characters: B-Town on SC s Tandav Decision
The Supreme Court s refusal to grant interim protection to Team Tandav and its observation that actors cannot play roles hurting the religious sentiments of others has led to consternation in the industry with many insiders worried about the road ahead for India s soft power.
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The Supreme Court s refusal to grant interim protection to Team Tandav and its observation that actors cannot play roles hurting the religious sentiments of others has led to consternation in the industry with many insiders worried about the road ahead for India s soft power. A day after the apex court ruling on the starry political saga from Amazon Prime Video from which several scenes have already been cut, most Bollywood biggies were silent. However, there were others, including Hansal Mehta, Pritish Nandy and Konkona Sen Sharma, who spoke of the line between art and the artiste b
No protection from arrest to Tandav cast, makers: SC
No protection from arrest to Tandav cast, makers: SC
IANS / Updated: Jan 28, 2021, 06:00 IST
Apex court also observed ‘freedom of speech isn’t absolute’
NEWDELHI Web series Tandav actors, makers, including
Saif Ali Khan and Ali Abbas Zafar likely face arrest after
Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down their pleas for protection from arrest.
A three judge bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan only issued notice on clubbing of various FIRs registered across the country and asked actor
Zeeshan Ayyub and others to move to
High Courts for quashing of FIRs or bail in the matters.
Hopefully, the controversy it has generated will not zip up other storytellers and platforms.
28 Jan, 2021 - 12:50 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
MUMBAI: A tight slap. That’s what the streaming industry has got in the face from the Supreme Court when it refused to protect the Amazon Prime Video team – involved in creating the controversial political thriller
Tandav – from being arrested.
The court, of course, took cognisance of the number of states in which police complaints and cases have been filed saying that the digital original was hurting Hindu and other caste sentiments, as well as depicting politicians wrongly. “Interested” politicians, citizens and journalists have registered their complaints in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Delhi, Karnataka, and Chandigarh.
The makers and actors of Amazon Prime web series
Tandav failed to get relief from India s Supreme Court after it refused to grant them protection from arrest.
Multiple first information reports have been filed against them for allegedly hurting religious sentiments and the team is also facing violent threats.
NDTV, actor Zeeshan Ayyub, Amazon Creative Head Aparna Purohit and the maker of the series Himanshu Kishan Mehra had moved the top court asking for a freeze on possible arrest.
Their lawyers pointed out that the makers of the series have already apologised, and the contents had been removed, arguing that the serial was only a political satire . A lawyer also quoted the case involving the
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Konkona Sen Sharma Takes a Dig at the Tandav Controversy
Actress Konkona Sen Sharma took to Twitter and reacted to the Supreme Court s decision to refuse to protect the makers and actors of Tandav from arrest.
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web series Tandav. She wonders if the entire team will be held accountable for making the series.
Reacting to the Supreme Court s decision to refuse to protect the makers and actors of Tandav from arrest, Konkona on Thursday tweeted: Almost all involved in the show have read the script and signed the contract! Let s arrest the whole cast and crew?