Jun 02, 2025 03:58 PM IST
Kamal Haasan faced massive backlash for making a comment during a promotional event of Thug Life, where he stated that “Kannada was born out of Tamil.”
Actor Kamal Haasan has been facing backlash after he made a comment regarding Kannada language during the promotion of his upcoming film Thug Life. The actor compared Tamil and Kannada languages, leading to pro-Kannada groups slamming him and even demanding a ban on the film in Karnataka. Now filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has come out in support of Kamal Haasan and slammed the threats against the actor and calls for banning the film as nothing but ‘hooliganism.’ (Also read: Kamal Haasan breaks silence on Kannada-Tamil row, says historians have taught him language: ‘Love will never apologise’)
What Ram Gopal Varma said on Kamal Haasan row
In his latest tweet on X (Formerly Twitter), Ram Gopal Varma said, “DEMOCRACY’s new name is INTOLERANCE..,irrespective of factual correctness , threats to ban #ThugLife in Karnataka unless @ikamalhaasan apologises , amounts to a new kind of HOOLIGANISM.”
After posting, Ram Gopal Varma deleted the tweet.
About the controversy
Meanwhile, Kamal has moved the Karnataka high court seeking the release of Thug Life, which has been stalled by the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce over his controversial remarks on the Kannada language.
The actor had reacted to the backlash and said that he did not mean ‘anything’ and it was made with a lot of love. “So lets leave all this very in-depth discussions to historians, archaeologists and language experts. If you look at it from the northern point of view, according to them it is right, if you look at it from Thenkumari (south), then what I say is right. There is a third angle to it– the scholars, the language experts. This is not an answer, an explanation. Love will never apologise,” he was quoted by PTI.
Thug Life is directed by Mani Ratnam and is set to release worldwide on June 5.
