UP Police serves notice to 'Tandav' director's Mumbai residence

Interestingly, Tandav director Ali Abbas Zafar's residence was locked and nobody was there to accept the notice. Whereas, when the police team reached the office of Himanshu Mehra, producer of the web series, they found that he had already vacated the building.

Mumbai: A team of Uttar Pradesh Police posted a notice at the office of the producer and at the residence of the director of the controversial web series Tandav, asking him to appear before IO (Investigation Officer) on 27th January in Lucknow.

Interestingly, director Ali Abbas Zafar's residence was locked and nobody was there to accept the notice. Whereas, when the police team reached the office of Himanshu Mehra in Mumbai, they found that the producer had already vacated the building.

While speaking to media, Anil Kumar Singh, an Uttar Pradesh Police official said, " We have reached the residence of web series Tandav and the office of the producer. When we reached the director's house, no one was there to accept the notice whereas the produced had vacated the office a long back."

Amid growing dissent over his recent web series 'Tandav', show creator already apologised on behalf of the entire cast and crew, saying they did not intend to offend anyone or insult any religion and political party.

Set in Delhi, the series revolves around the theme of power, ambition and greed through a very political story.

The series came under fire with several people claiming that it provokes communal disharmony and hurts sentiments of the Hindus. According to the complaints, a scene featuring Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub performing a college play insults the Hindu deity, Shiva.

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry had earlier issued notice to Amazon Prime, the OTT platform airing the show, seeking its response to the complaints.

The series features Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia, Sunil Grover, Kritika Kamra, Sarah Jane Dias, Gauahar Khan, Dino Morea, Kumud Mishra, Shonali Nagrani, Anup Soni, Neha Hinge, Sandhya Mridul, and Amyra Dastur.