KGF 2 Teaser to be Deleted From YouTube? Activists Slam Yash For ‘Promoting Cigarette Smoking’

The makers of KGF 2 have been despatched a letter objecting to the visible wherein Yash is seen lighting a cigarette and smoking. The teaser of the Prashanth Neel-directorial was launched lately to extensive appreciation and it went viral on numerous social media platforms very quickly. In the newest improvement, the Karnataka State Anti-Tobacco Cell has despatched a letter to the director, Yash, producer Vijay Kiragandur and the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce objecting to the actual visible. Also Read – Raveena Tandon, Sanjay Dutt Respond To ‘Overwhelming’ Response To KGF 2 Teaser KGF 2 Teaser to be Deleted?  Also Read – KGF 2 Story Revealed, Yash-Sanjay Dutt Set to Fight For Kolar Gold Mines in Most Expensive Kannada Movie As reported by The Hindu, the objected scene violates Section 5 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act 2003. The cell has demanded the deletion of the teaser from numerous platforms and the elimination of the posters of the movie that present Yash smoking. Also Read – KGF 2 Teaser Breaks YouTube World Record, Will it Beat Baahubali? KGF 2 Controversy: Why Didn’t Yash Think of His Huge Fan-Following? The principal rivalry is Yash’s large reputation among the many youth because the officers worry that the actor might affect many followers to emulate him along with his ‘macho’ act. The KGF 2 teaser doesn’t embody any statutory warning towards the consumption of tobacco merchandise in your entire clip and that’s one other level of objection. Talking about the identical, an official from the cell talked about, “The law says that a smoking scene can be included in the movie provided there is editorial justification for the same, but an anti-tobacco health spot or messages will have to run as a scroll on the screen during the scene.”

KGF 2 Promotes ‘Cigarette Smoking’ Anti-tobacco activist Vasanthkumar Mysoremath talked concerning the ‘unhealthy promotion of cigarette smoking’ that Yash appears to be doing within the teaser and the way the scene is completely not-required within the clip. He stated that the one factor that scene does is to ‘encourage the youths to imitate their hero’ which is deplorable. He was quoted as saying, “Yash should have refused to portray himself as a habitual smoker knowing fully well that he has brigades of youth that follow him and may like to imitate his macho acts in his films.” KGF 2 Makers Repeat The Same Mistake They Did in KGF Chapter 1 Earlier, throughout the launch of KGF Chapter 1, the activists had objected to the smoking scenes that violated the provisions of COTPA 2003 and the makers had made a number of modifications to the ultimate print of the movie. However, making the identical errors once more is unlucky and it reveals ‘smoking being glorified’, stated Mysoremath.

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