Controversies on tandav web series...

The covid-19 pandemic changed the way of everything around us. The way we live, the way we enjoy and everything. One major thing that have a great influence in our lives that also got changed if the entertainment sector. Before the pandemic, we used to go to the cinema hall to watch movies. But, the crisis changed the way entertainment was before and now we have the OTT platforms where we can watch lots of movies and web series at a very low price with all our family. So, we are receiving a lot of content at a very low price. But here the coin has a second face also. As directors and producers got rights to present their contents on a large population, sometimes they present content that may hurt people's sentiments. And controversies are a common part nowadays in these things. 

Same happened with the recent web series of Saif Ali Khan named TANDAV which is releases on Amazon Prime Videos. People showed their anger towards the web series through various online platforms as they say some scenes of TANDAV hurts the sentiments of the people belonging to the HINDU religion. But before getting into the whole matter, lets get some information about this web series. 


 

ABOUT TANDAV WEB SERIES -

Tandav is an Indian Hindi political drama web series on Amazon Prime Video, directed by Ali Abbas Zafar. Saif Ali Khan portrayed the role of a powerful politician in the series that started streaming from 15 January 2021 on Prime Video. This nine-episode series features Dimple Kapadia, Sunil Grover, Kumud Misra, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Sarah Jane Dias, Kritika Kamra, Dino Morea, Sandhya Mridul, Neha Hinge, Amyra Dastur, and Anup Soni.

WHAT IS THE CONTROVERSY -

Tandav has landed itself in trouble with a section of the audience that feels that the show is insulting the Hindu Gods and Goddesses, and also mocking the religions. The Ali Abbas Zafar-directorial has been receiving a backlash on social media majorly because of two scenes. One that features Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub playing the role of student leader-turned-rising politician Shiva, and another scene that features Sandhya Mridul and Anup Soni as a couple. While most complaints against Tandav are being filed for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments, netizens seem offended by both scenes. Let’s see what these two scenes are and why people seem offended by them.

Scene 1 from Episode 1: Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub aka Shiva plays the role of Lord Shiva in a college play. He doesn’t match the traditional depiction of the Hindu God but looks stylish – wearing a suit, carrying a Treeshul in one hand, and smearing blue paint on his face and neck. Shiva talks about getting fewer followers on social media as compared to Lord Ram and what should he do to increase followers. Narad Muni (another mythological figure) advises him to tweet ‘something sensational’ to get more followers on Twitter and talk about how the students of the university are chanting ‘azaadi azaadi’ these days. The scene explains how students are talking about getting freedom from poverty, feudalism, and caste-based discrimination in the country but they are being misunderstood. “Matlab desh se azaadi nahi chahye, desh me rehte hue azaadi chahye” says Shiva as the scene ends.

Scene 2 from Episode 8: In a conversation, Sandhya (Sandhya Mridul) tells her boyfriend and now the father of her child, Dalit political leader Kailash Kumar (Anup Soni), that her ex-husband once told her something that she thought was bulls***. She quotes Jigar (Dino Morea) and says when a Dalit man dates a woman from an upper caste, he takes revenge for the discrimination that he and his community have suffered over the years. “Usne kaha thi ki jab ek chhoti jaat ka aadmi ek unchi jaat ki aurat ko date karta hai, toh sirf badla lene ke liye… sadiyon ke atyacharon ka, us ek aurat se.” The dialogue shows the woman’s outrage when she finds out that she’s pregnant with Kailash’s child who lied to her about taking a divorce from his wife before having a relationship with her. 

CONCLUSION -

As the freedom to express comes , various people express their views on every topic . Everyone have their own thoughts and sentiments . So , we are not giving our thought on this matter . But , for any content creator , the thing that they should keep in their mind is that their content must not hurt anybody . Every religion is respectful in our country . So no content should hurt any religious sentiments .