Raj and DK, the directors of Amazon Prime Video web series The Family Man Season 2, have responded to the calls for banning the series. In a statement, they said that assumptions were being made based on a few shots in the trailer. They said they have spent years to bring a ‘sensitive, balanced’ story and urged people to watch the show before passing judgment.
“Some assumptions and impressions have been made based on just a couple of shots in the trailer. Many of our lead cast members, as well as key members of the creative & writing team, are Tamilians. We are very cognizant of the sentiments of the Tamil people and Tamil culture and have nothing but the utmost love and respect towards our Tamil people,” they said in a statement, the Indian Express reported.
They added: “We have put in years of hard work into this show, and we have taken great pains to bring to our audiences a sensitive, balanced, and riveting story – much like we did in Season 1 of the show. We request everyone to wait and watch the show when it releases. We know you’ll appreciate it once you watch it.”
The Tamil Nadu government on Monday requested the Centre to take immediate action either to stop or ban the release of The Family Man 2 web series on Amazon Prime, saying it depicted the Eelam Tamils in a "highly objectionable manner."
Claiming there were "condemnable, inappropriate and malicious contents" in the serial, Tamil Nadu IT Minister T Mano Thangaraj, in a letter to Information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar, said the trailer released in social media was aimed at discrediting and distorting the historical struggle of the Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka.
"Branding Tamil speaking actress Samantha as a terrorist in the serial is directly an attack on the pride of Tamils living around the world and no one will tolerate this kind of motivated and mischievous campaign," he said.
Earlier, Rajya Sabha MP Vaiko also wrote a letter to Prakash Javadekar demanding the ban on the show’s broadcast on Amazon Prime Video.