Indian Muslims are enraged at Netflix after the release of the much anticipated South Indian Netflix original anthology series titled 'Navarasa.' The hashtag #BanNetflix is now trending on Twitter’s Indian feed. The nine stand-alone episodes featuring some of the biggest names in South cinema was released on Friday (August 6).
Though the series is being showered by praises from film critics globally, few members of the Indian Muslim community have expressed their displeasure over an advertisement Netflix posted in a leading Tamil daily.
Raza Academy, an organisation for Indian Sunni Muslims, accused Netflix of publishing a verse from Holy Quran in an advertisement to promote Navarasa on Dailythanthi, a popular Tamil newspaper.
Apparently, the front-page advertisement featured a poster of the short film ‘Inmai’ from ‘Navarasa’ which used a verse from the holy Quran.
The organisation demanded strict action against Netflix, accusing the streaming giant of ‘insulting the holy book’.
"Netflix has published a verse of the Quran in the advertisement of its film NavaRasa in Daily Thanthi newspaper. This is an insult to the Quran. We demand strict action against @NetflixIndia," a tweet on the official Twitter handle of Raza Academy read.
The tweet quickly took off on the social media platform and #BanNetflix became a trending topic on Twitter.
Navarasa’s short film ‘Inmai’ stars South Indian celebs like Siddharth, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Pavel Navageethan and Rajesh Balachandran in key roles.
Rathindran R. Prasad has directed the film while Vishal Bhardwaj has composed the music for it.
The nine different episodes of the anthology feature South Indian superstars like Arvind Swami, Vijay Sethupathi, Prakash Raj.
