The trailer of ‘Thackeray’ was released on Wednesday which is a biopic made on Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray. However, it looks like the trailer is garnering controversies due some of its scenes. Tamil and Telugu star Siddharth tweeted against the biopic’s anti-South Indian tone in the trailer.
“Nawazuddin has repeated ‘Uthao lungi bajao pungi’ (lift the lungi and *’#$ him) in the film #Thackeray. Clearly hate speech against South Indians… In a film glorifying the person who said it! Are you planning to make money out of this propaganda? Stop selling hate! Scary stuff!” – tweeted Siddharth mentioning a dialogue from the film.
Siddharth went on to make another point about the Thackeray biopic: “Poetic justice is when a Muslim actor from UP gets to play the part of the revered Marathi bigot in a propaganda film.”
Apart from that the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has also raised issues with some of the scenes and has demanded certain cuts in the film, which writer and producer, Sanjay Raut, has refused to comply with.
Co-produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and directed by Abhijit Panse, Thackeray is scheduled to release on January 25, 2019.