Jun 04, 2025 09:55 PM IST

#Rana Daggubati and Abhishek Banerjee spoke about how #Kamal Haasan’s current assertion on Tamil and #Kannada kicked up a furore and had this to say. 

Actor #Kamal Haasan finds himself within the midst of a language row forward of the discharge of his movie Thug Life. The #Mani Ratnam-directed movie has been barred from launch in #Karnataka, with Kamal doubling down and never apologising for a press release he made on #Kannada being born out of Tamil. Recently, the #Karnataka HC slammed his assertion and referred to as him out for not apologising. In an interview with #India Today, #Rana Daggubati and Abhishek Banerjee, nevertheless, stated this when requested about it. (Also Read: ‘I thank the people of #Tamil Nadu for supporting me’: #Kamal Haasan in 1st press meet after #Kannada language row)

#Rana Daggubati and Abhishek Banerjee reacted to #Kamal Haasan’s language row.

#Rana Daggubati questions why actors are regarded as much as

When requested to touch upon Kamal’s language row, Rana questioned why actors are being regarded as much as for the way in which society lives as a substitute of students or politicians. He stated, “Now, social media has become a place to make an opinion. Earlier, you didn’t have that. Anything gets touchy and political quite quickly. If the media and the news, and people become smarter (and understand) that actors are not the ones to advocate for the way society lives – it will be a better place. I think you should look at scholars, politicians and learned men and women to lead a way into society.”

Abhishek Banerjee compares it to Marathi-Bihari row

His #Rana Naidu co-star Abhishek additionally agreed with Rana and in contrast it to the Marathi-Bihari battle in #Maharashtra and stated, “When I came to Bombay many years back, I heard the same thing about the Marathi-Bihari and #Kannada-Tamil conflict, which has been going on. I feel it’s completely worthless and useless. People who don’t have anything better to do, will just try and get attention while doing this.” He additionally said that language is nice when used to coach folks and domesticate tradition, relatively than to trigger divide.

Thug Life will probably be launched throughout the nation on 5 June aside from #Karnataka. It stays to be seen if the transfer will have an effect on its field workplace collections.