OIMBATORE:
Puthiya Tamizhagam
leader K Krishnaswamy has threatened to file a case against actor Kamal Haasan for refusing to apologise for a ‘derogatory’ statement made by a contestant in the Bigg Boss reality show he hosts on a
Tamil TV
channel.
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Krishnaswamy told reporters in Coimbatore that he was going to file a
defamation case
against the channel and the actor for failing to apologise for the cusswords used in the show.
He said, “In the show, there was a conversation between two contestants. One of them called the other as ‘cheri’ (slum dweller). It is a public platform, and millions of people are watching it. We are sure that it is definitely a prepared script. The channel cannot say it was a mistake. They are creating imbalance in the society and hurting one particular section of the society,” he said.
He had demanded that Kamal Haasan apologise for these comments.
“But the actor did not even condemn it or talk about this in the show despite many people raising this issue. So we demanded that he and the channel owners publicly apologise for it. We waited for two days and they have not even considered our request. So we have decided to go ahead with a 100 crore defamation case against the actor and the channel,” Krishnasamy said.
Krishnasamy said he would file the case in a couple of days.