Tirunelveli: Some unidentified miscreants hurled petrol bombs at a cinema hall screening actor Sivakarthikeyan’s biographical drama, 'Amaran', early on Saturday, police said. No one was hurt, police who are investigating the incident, said.
"Two miscreants hurled the petrol bombs inside the compound wall of the cinema complex in Melapalayam. It exploded. No one was however injured and it did not cause any damage to property," the police said.
Strongly condemning the incident, Tamil Nadu BJP vice-president, Narayanan Thirupathy, alleged that "Islamic fundamental organisations such as SDPI, MNMK, Thouheed Jamath had earlier protested against the movie 'Amaran' a biopic on Major Mukund Varadarajan, who was posthumously awarded Ashok Chakra for his valour during a counter-terrorism operation, stating that it had portrayed Muslims as terrorists which were not true."
The movie had in several scenes shown Indian Muslims as martyrs and patriots. "But unable to bear that the movie had shown the terrorist activities that took place in Kashmir, the fundamentalistic organisations had threatened the screening of the movie," he alleged in a post on the social media platform 'X'.
திருநெல்வேலியில் அமரன் திரைப்படத்தை திரையிட்டு வருகின்ற அலங்கார் திரையரங்கின் மீது சில பயங்கரவாதிகளால் பெட்ரோல் குண்டுகள் வீசப்பட்டிருப்பது வன்மையாக கண்டிக்கத்தது. தொடர்ந்து எஸ் டி பி ஐ, தவ்ஹீத் ஜமாஅத் மற்றும் மனிதநேய மக்கள் கட்சி உள்ளிட்ட அமைப்புகள் இந்த திரைப்படத்தை கண்டித்து…
— Narayanan Thirupathy (@narayanantbjp) November 16, 2024
But the people of Tamil Nadu welcomed the movie and made it a huge success. Unable to digest this, today the fundamentalist organisations resorted to violence and hurled petrol bombs in a theatre where the movie 'Amaran' was screened, Narayanan said.
