The Family Man 2 & Samantha Akkineni Receive Flak For Projecting Tamilians As Extremists After Trailer Release

    The Family Man 2 & Samantha Akkineni Receive Flak

    The Family Man 2 & Samantha Akkineni Receive Flak For Projecting Tamilians As Extremists After Trailer Release

    The highly anticipated trailer of Raj & DK’s The Family Man 2 released on Wednesday. Largely being loved for Manoj Bajpayee’s return as Srikant Tiwari and Samnatha Akkineni’s role as an antagonist in this digital debut, the series trailer also seems to have offended a few.

    According to the trailer, most of this new season’s action takes place in Chennai where intelligence officer Srikant Tiwari is likely to face off a group of rebels in the state and Samnatha’s character Rajji is a part of this extremist operation.  She is also seen wearing a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) uniform in the trailer.

    Well, showing Tamils as terrorists didn’t sit quite well with people who tweeted against Samantha and the showing saying that Family Man 2 is against Tamilians. The Telugu actress who is making her debut on digital media with the show is reportedly playing a suicide bomber who hails from Tamil Nadu.

    After a major controversy followed Amazon Prime Video post Saif Ali Khan’s Tandav earlier this year for hurting religious sentiments, the platform pushed the release of The Family Man 2 from February to June and reportedly all the new offerings from streaming giant were fine combed for potentially offensive content.