ZEE5 Tamil Godman Web Series has landed itself in a major soup owing to the provocative teaser it had aired recently. The teaser of Godman contained several incendiary sequences, owing to which social media users perceived that the series is another Hinduphobic offering from OTT. Godman adds to the growing list of series/upcoming series perceived as Hinduphobic by viewers, the others being Netflix’s Sacred Games, Leila, Ghoul, and Amazon Prime Video’s latest, Paatal Lok.
The teaser of the Godman series shows a godman named Anandhar, played by actor Jayaprakash, asking, “Where does it say only Brahmins can read Vedas?” The teaser then cuts to sequences in which a character named Ayyanar, who has negative traits like womanising and alcoholism, is shown making out with a woman. The character, played by actor Daniel Balaji, is later shown to become a Godman, with a cult following.
Both the aforementioned characters are allegedly said to be modelled in the series on the Kanchi Seer and the controversial Godman Swami Nityanand respectively. Swami Nityanand is on the run and in hiding, ever since he was accused by several women of rape.
The Godman teaser received a major whiplash on social media, with viewers alleging that the series is against Hinduism and Brahmins, and shows both in a bad light. So much so that ZEE5 has been compelled to pull down the teaser of Godman from its social media handles. There’s also no mention of the upcoming series on any of the ZEE5 handles – ZEE5 India, ZEE5 Premium or ZEE5 Tamil.
Has the Godman series been cancelled altogether? Or do the makers and ZEE5 plan to wait it out, tweak the offending portions and bring back the series at a later date?
Stay tuned to Binged.com, as we bring you the answers and further news on Godman on ZEE5.
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