KUALA LUMPUR:
Kamal Hassan, the besieged actor-producer whose latest film Vishwaaroopam has triggered a raging controversy, has found support from Malaysia’s largest ethnic Indian political party MIC. The party has asked the government to allow the screening of the movie and underlined that the spy thriller was not against any religion.
Kamal Hassan has a massive fan following in Malaysia, home to around two million persons of Indian origin. The decision to remove the controversy-beset film from local cinema halls a day after its release has elicited howls of protest from the outraged ethnic Indians.
The spy thriller portrays incidents of terrorism but has nothing to do with religion, contended MIC strategic director S. Vell Paari, son of Samy Vellu who headed the MIC for decades. Hindraf Makkal Sakti, a local NGO, has been proactively batting for the movie.
Vell Paari has invited Malaysia’s Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein and his officers to attend a special screening of the movie and make an independent assessment on whether it was anti-Islam or not. “I am sure the film distributors, Lotus Fivestar AV, will accommodate the request,” he said.
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