{"id":26787,"date":"2017-11-26T00:06:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T00:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2017\/11\/26\/padmavati-row-kamal-haasan-says-indians-are-being-over-sensitive\/"},"modified":"2017-11-26T00:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T00:06:16","slug":"padmavati-row-kamal-haasan-says-indians-are-being-over-sensitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/26\/padmavati-row-kamal-haasan-says-indians-are-being-over-sensitive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Padmavati\u2019 row: Kamal Haasan says Indians are being over sensitive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Veteran actor Kamal Haasan, who earlier came out in support of \u201cPadmavati\u201d actress Deepika Padukone amid protests and death threats hurled at her for being a part of the film, says people are being \u201cover-sensitive\u201d on the issue.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe are being over sensitive. I am saying so in the capacity of being an Indian. In a country where politicians wanted citizens to come upfront in the past… that doesn\u2019t mean I am dismissing off a whole group of people… There are enough Kamals not enough podiums,\u201d said Kamal during a discussion at the Times Delhi Lit Fest on Saturday. <\/div>\n
Bhansali\u2019s attempt to bring alive the story of Rajput queen Rani Padmavati on the silver screen with his movie \u201cPadmavati\u201d hasn\u2019t gone down well with Hindu groups backed by the BJP. It features Deepika as Rani Padmavati, Shahid Kapoor as her husband and a warrior king and Ranveer Singh essays Alauddin Khilji.<\/div>\n
Bhansali faced many hiccups while shooting the film, but the protests escalated as the film neared its release date. There are conjectures that it \u201cdistorts history\u201d regarding the Rajput queen, and Bhansali has denied it repeatedly. The movie\u2019s release date has been deferred from the original December 1 date, but there are efforts from Hindu groups to have it banned.<\/div>\n
Kamal, whose films too have faced threats on the same level be it for \u201cHey Ram\u201d or \u201cVishwaroopam\u201d, says the current clamour around \u201cPadmavati\u201d is a \u201cproblem\u201d, but it is not new. <\/div>\n
\u201cThere is a problem but it\u2019s not new. When my film \u2018Hey Ram\u2019 was to release, somebody in Congress (political party) thought it should be banned just by looking at the poster. But they did not know what was in the film. Censors were being extra careful. Certification board behaved like censor board,\u201d said Kamal, who has been a part of the film industry for almost five decades. <\/div>\n
\u201cAll my films had a problem for reasons I am still trying to understand. Same goes for rumours when you send an sms and it distributes. We are always ready to believe the negativity first. It (protests) is wrong. After it (\u2018Padmavati\u2019) comes out and then people have problem… that I still understand,\u201d he added. <\/div>\n
Speaking on the slamming culture on social media like Twitter where individuals are free to opine, Kamal says \u201cthose who want it regulated have some logic of their own\u201d.<\/div>\n
\u201cThey shouldn\u2019t do it but… some are far exceeding their freedom which is why they are slammed perhaps,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n
\u201cEveryone blames it on youth. It\u2019s not age talking it is the lack of reverence talking. Deeper and hurtful things come from the grown up,\u201d he added.        (IANS)<\/div>\n
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Veteran actor Kamal Haasan, who earlier came out in support of \u201cPadmavati\u201d actress Deepika Padukone amid protests and death threats hurled at her for being a part of the film, says people are being \u201cover-sensitive\u201d on the issue. \u201cWe are being over sensitive. I am saying so in the capacity of being an Indian. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}