'Stolen' and 'Stree' actor Abhishek Banerjee on Kamal Haasan's 'Kannada was born out of Tamil' remark: 'Heard the same thing about the Marathi-Bihari and...'

Kamal Haasan is gearing up for the release of his film Thug Life with Mani Ratnam. During the promotional events, the veteran said something that has not gone down well with many people and it invited a lot of backlash. And now a complaint has been filed against him for his controversial remark.

What did the actor say?

At the event,   Kamal Haasan began his speech by saying, “Uyire Urave Tamizhe”, meaning “my life and my family is Tamil language”. He went on to add, “Actor Shivarajkumar is my family living in another state. That’s why he is here. That’s why when I started my speech, I said ‘my life and my family is Tamil’. Your language (Kannada) was born out of Tamil. So you are included in that line.”

Abhishek Banerjee and Rana Daggubati react

Rana Daggubati said, “Now, social media has become a place to make an opinion. Earlier, you didn’t have that. Anything gets touchy and political quite quickly.”

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The actor added, “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 added further, “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.”

He continued, “People who don’t have anything better to do, will just try and get attention while doing this.”