Rajini bats for Kamal

January 25, 2013 02:15 pm | Updated December 05, 2021 09:12 am IST - CHENNAI

Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan during a function in Chennai. File photo

Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan during a function in Chennai. File photo

Tamil film industry’s reigning ‘Superstar’ Rajinikanth has come in support of actor and film-maker Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam in a letter to his fans on Friday.

The film fraternity has been by and large quiet in the wake of the ban on the movie and the subsequent court case at the Madras High Court. The few reactions that have come so far have been from a few actors who are active on Twitter. With the letter, Rajinikanth has been the most prominent voice yet from Tamil Nadu, in support of Kamal Haasan.

In an open letter to all his Tamil film fans, Rajinikanth has said his “close friend for 40 years” is incapable of hurting the sentiments of anyone. Claiming to be very disturbed at the wake of the opposition by Muslim groups to the release of the movie, the actor pointed out that the fact that Kamal Haasan screened the movie for a section of Muslim leaders, even before releasing it in theatres, was clear proof that he respected the sentiments of the people.

He urged the aggrieved parties to wait and talk on the issue with Kamal Haasan upon his return from the US (where the Hindi version of the movie Vishwaroop premiered on Wednesday and the Tamil version Vishwaroopam premiered on Thursday). He suggested that instead of calling on a total ban on the release of the movie, the aggrieved parties could ask him to review only those sequences that caused hurt. “Having learned how he raised money to finance the Rs.100 crore movie, I am most disturbed.”

Praising Kamal Haasan as “no ordinary artist,” Rajinikanth said the film-maker intended to elevate Tamil cinema to a global scale.

He also wished his Muslim fans on the occasion of Milad-un-Nabi.

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