Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam suffers yet another setback as the Madras High Court stayed the release of the film in Tamil Nadu till February 6, and asked the actor to file a counter with the single judge bench.
Orders given by Justice K. Venkataraman to remove the stay, was quashed by the two-member Bench today. The Bench posted the case for hearing to next Wednesday. Hours before the earlier order got quashed, the movie was released in a few screens in the city. Some of these theatres were attacked by “unidentified” mob.
Irked by this development, in an emotional interview to media persons, the actor said he may have to migrate to some other State. “I am fed up. I am an artiste. I will have to seek a secular State to live in….a secular State from Kashmir to Kerala, if Tamil Nadu wants me out,” he said.
He had pledged his properties to make the film. He said, “I may even lose my properties if the release of the movie is delayed any further.”
In a show of solidarity, leading film personalities and politicians from across the country have expressed their support to the actor.
ravikumar.ramanujam@thehindu.co.in
Keywords: Setback, Kamal Haasan, HC stays, release of Vishwaroopam, deferred again, setting aside, single judge’s order, green signal, delete scenes, considered offensive, Muslim outfits
Comments:
I am ashamed to be part of a so called "secular" country and an ultra corrupt state that is Tamil Nadu. Kamal Hassan's a great artiste and it is very unfortunate that such things are happening to him. If you don't want to see the movie, don't see it, but please do not be violent and disrupt life.
There are better cases and issues for the TN Government to defend and
fight before law. And this echo clash should prove fatal for the current
government in the Loksabha polls..
Supreme court should ban the protesters and the power behind them entering India and not the release of VISHWAROOPAM. Kamal haasan deserves all our love and affection.
People doing such a crap activity, Dont you feel ashamed of all your activities. Its time to grow up! RIP and Rise in Hell-> TN Government...
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