A team of Uttar Pradesh Police reached Mumbai on Wednesday to question the makers of Amazon Prime Video’s series Tandav, a report in the Hindustan Times stated.
Tandav, a nine-episode political thriller starring Bollywood A-listers Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia and Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, started streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Friday but the show ran into trouble over its depiction of Hindu deities. In Uttar Pradesh, three FIRs have been lodged against the makers and artists of Tandav—in Lucknow, Greater Noida and Shahjahanpur.
The complainants have alleged inappropriate depiction of Uttar Pradesh Police personnel, Hindu deities, and adverse portrayal of a character playing the prime minister in the political drama.
The latest FIR at Rabupura in Greater Noida names as accused Zafar, Amazon Prime's India head Aparna Purohit, producer Himanshu Kishan Mehra, writer Gaurav Solanki and actors Khan, Kapadia and Sunil Grover.
The makers of Tandav ,on Tuesday, agreed to implement changes to their controversial web series after several FIRs were filed. In a statement, the team said, "We have utmost respect for the sentiments of the people of our country. We did not intend to hurt or offend the sentiments of any individual, caste, community, race, religion or religious beliefs or insult or outrage any institution, political party or person, living or dead."
Facing outrage, the cast and crew had on Monday issued an unconditional apology if their fictional show had "unintentionally" hurt sentiments.
-with PTI inputs
