Universal Hero Kamal Haasan during the release of his film Thug Life directed by Mani Ratnam, made controversial comments regarding Kannada langauge. He said Tamil langauge gave birth to Kannada langauge.
This resulted in a huge controversy and following this, the state witnessed huge protests against Kamal Haasan and Karnataka stopped the release of Thug Life. Though Supreme Court gave permission for the film release, the distributors said they will not release the film.
In the meantime, Bengaluru High Court shocked Kamal Haasan. A local court in Bengaluru has passed an ex parte interim injunction order restraining the actor from making any remarks against the Kannada language. Hearing a suit filed by Kannada Sahitya Parishat (KSP) through its president, Mahesh Joshi, Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge in the city passed the order.
The order restrained Kamal Haasan from ‘posting, making, writing, publishing any statement or remarks claiming linguistic superiority over Kannada language or making any statements against the Kannada language, literature, land and culture’.
The court also issued a summons to Kamal Hassan and posted the case to August 30 for further hearing.