Amazon Prime’s popular web-series The Family Man Season 2 is in trouble even before its release. The Tamil government has alleged that the Manoj Bajpayee starrer depicts the “Eelam Tamils in a highly objectionable manner”.
Tamil Nadu Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Mano Thangaraj wrote to Union minister for Information and Broadcasting, Prakash Javedkar, to immediately stop the screening of “Familyman-2” web series on OTT platform Amazon Prime throughout the country.
Mano Thangaraj in the letter said: “Branding Tamil speaking actress Samantha as a “terrorist” in the series was directly an attack on the pride of Tamil population living around the world and no one would tolerate this kind of motivated and mischievous campaign.”
Series has already evoked widespread opposition from the people of Tamil Nadu as well as from the political parties in the state, he added.
Raj and DK, the directors of The Family Man Season 2, have responded to the calls for banning the series and has said that assumptions have been made merely on the basis of trailer.
Raj and DK said in the statement, “Some assumptions and impressions have been made based on just a couple of shots in the trailer. Many of our lead cast members, as well as key members of the creative & writing team, are Tamilians. We are very cognizant of the sentiments of the Tamil people and Tamil culture and have nothing but the utmost love and respect towards our Tamil people.”
Requesting everyone to watch the show first, they added, “We have put in years of hard work into this show, and we have taken great pains to bring to our audiences a sensitive, balanced, and riveting story – much like we did in Season 1 of the show. We request everyone to wait and watch the show when it releases. We know you’ll appreciate it once you watch it.”
The series is scheduled for June 4 release on the OTT platform.