Tamil audiences have been trolling (and abusing) the cast and crew of Varane Avashyamund misinterpreting a team’s hat tip to an old Malayalam joke.
There is a scene in the film where Suresh Gopi’s character Major Unnikrishnan calls his dog “Prabhakara”. It’s actually a tribute to Pattanapravesham a 1988 Malayalam film where Thilakan’s underworld don is shocked to learn that his friend ‘Prabhakaran’ won’t help him in a critical situation.
To all those who were offended. I apologise. And I also apologise on behalf of #VaraneAvashyamund and @DQsWayfarerFilm ! pic.twitter.com/erbjftlNbj
— dulquer salmaan (@dulQuer) April 26, 2020
Tamils on social media think this is a reference to the late LTTE leader Prabhakaran and attacked Dulquer who stars in the film and Anoop Sathyan, the director. Anoop’s father Sathyan Anthikad is the director of Pattanapravesham. Despite multiple clarifications from the movie crew the attacks haven’t stopped.
To all those who were offended. I apologise. And I also apologise on behalf of #VaraneAvashyamund and @DQsWayfarerFilm ! This is the reference to the joke in question. The 1988 film “Pattana Pravesham”. pic.twitter.com/7fQrrJRU7u
— dulquer salmaan (@dulQuer) April 26, 2020
Varane… is in fact set in Chennai and several characters speak Tamil. In a recent interview to Silverscreen India, Anoop had said, “Chennai is a city close to my heart. It has a cultural identity; a soul. I lived in Chennai while working at Wipro, and my twin brother, Akhil, is settled there. Also, Shobhana lives in Chennai. She preferred to work in films that were set in the city.”
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