Tandav Row: Ali Abbas Zafar issues ‘sincere apologies’ on behalf of cast & crew

Since its release on January 15 on Amazon Prime Video, Tandav has been embroiled in controversy for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of Hindus. An FIR has also been registered in Lucknow, UP against the makers and entire team of the political drama. The complaint was against Amazon India content head, director, writer and producer of Tandav. Also, it created a stir on social media demanding the ban of the web-series.

Finally, the cast and crew of Tandav have released a statement and apologized ‘if it has unintentionally hurt anybody’s sentiments’. Director Ali Abbas Zafar who is also the creator and producer of Tandav has posted the statement on his Twitter handle and wrote, “Our sincere apologies”.

The statement read: “We have been closely monitoring viewer reactions to the web series ‘Tandav’ and today during a discussion, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting have informed us regarding a large number of grievances and petitions received on various facets of the web series with serious concerns and apprehensions regarding its content hurting the sentiments of the people.

The web series ‘Tandav’ is a work of fiction and any resemblance to acts and persons and events is purely coincidental. The cast and crew did not have any intention to 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. The cast and crew of ‘Tandav’ take cognizance of the concerns expressed by the people and unconditionally apologize if it has unintentionally hurt anybody’s sentiments”.

Check the tweet here.

Our sincere apologies . pic.twitter.com/Efr9s0kYnl

— ali abbas zafar (@aliabbaszafar) January 18, 2021

Tandav has an ensemble cast including Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia, Kumud Mishra, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Dino Morea, Sunil Grover, Gauahar Khan, Amyra Dastur, Kritika Kamra, Sarah Jane Dias, Sandhya Mridul, Annup Sonii and Hitten Ttejwani among others.

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