Muslim group in Tamil Nadu protests against Kamal Hassan-produced film 'Amaran'

Days after a 90-second teaser of the Tamil movie, a Kamal Hassan production, Amaran, was released, members of the political party Tamilaga Makkal Jananayaga Katchi (TMJK) took to the streets on Thursday, January 22, demanding that the movie be banned, stating that it portrays Muslims in a negative light.

The teaser of the film, released on February 16, produced by



Hassan’s Raaj Kamal Films International, Sony Pictures International Productions, and R Mahendran, stars Sivakarthikeyan and is a biopic of late Indian Army officer Major Mukund Varadarajan, who was killed in April 2014 in a fight at Shopian of Kashmir.

Major Varadarajan was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra award, the nation’s highest peacetime gallantry award.