Malayalam actor Joju George, who recently starred in the film Pani, found himself in a sticky situation after a recording of his call with a netizen went viral online. In the audio clip, he can be heard threatening the netizen for giving a negative review to Pani, that has also been directed by George.
A netizen named Adarsh HS took to his social media to criticise the film Pani for handling topics related to sexual violence and rape poorly. This did not go down well with George, who then dialled up his number and questioned him about the review. "Do you have the guts to face me?" he asked Adarsh.
When Adarsh retaliated atating that a rape scene in the film should not have been portrayed in the manner that it was, George responded, "Please teach me. I’ll come to you. Where will you be tomorrow? Or better yet, just keep thinking about me every day."
Adarsh then asked George why was he getting provoked and bothered by one negative review about his film if he was so confident, to which George replied, "Kid, if I had truly been provoked, you will pee your pants."
As the audio clip went viral online, netizens slammed George for threatening and speaking brashly to the netizen, who had every right to share his review of the film.
The actor-filmmaker later went live on his Instagram handle and stated that despite coming across several negative reviews of Pani, he chose to call only Adarsh as the latter went out of his way to stop people from watching the film and he also gave away spoilers in his review.
He added that he did not know Adarsh personally and held no grudge against him.
