Bharathiraja Condemns ‘Irandam Kuthu’ Trailer for Explicit Content

His letter read, “Cinema is also business but it pains me to know that it has come down to using a banana as a symbol and taking it to people with a distasteful meaning. Don’t they have women in their homes? Won’t their women condemn this? No matter what, as a senior member, I will condemn it (sic).”

Irandam Kuthu is a sequel of 2018 film Iruttu Arayil Murattu Kuthu. The trailer of the movie came out on Wednesday, October 7. In the trailer, there are clear references and visuals of masturbation, explicit scenes of women’s body, actions indicative of fellatio and phallic symbols. Before this, a poster of the film, which showed two men holding giant bananas to their genitals with a woman in a bikini in between, was also released online.

Emphasising on how problematic the content of the mere trailer is, Bharathiraja stated that cinema can show lifestyle but showing such a thing is not proper. He has also mentioned that he may be called a ‘culture police’ for his move, but he will still go on and condemn it. He also mentioned that in his belief, dignity of the house should be protected at all times.