Has Amazon Prime learnt its lesson in India? Well, it appears in order it vows to not convey the second season of Tandav

Amazon Prime has learnt its lesson. The second season of the online sequence Tandav is reportedly now shelved, and the Saif Ali Khan-starrer will not be launched on India’s digital airwaves. The sequence, which confirmed Hindu deities and culturalists in dangerous gentle had courted controversy from the primary day. The sequence bore an eerie resemblance to all that was taking place within the nation and appeared to challenge the federal government at fault for all of it – an apparent indication of the present creators’ motivations. After going through nationwide backlash, a sequence of police instances in a number of states, and the creators of the online sequence ‘Tandav’ being dragged to the court docket, the OTT streaming platform Amazon Prime Video had tendered an apology to its Indian viewers for hurting their spiritual sentiments in its just lately launched political drama sequence.Now, based on a Bollywood Hungama report, the second season of the drama has been ‘axed’. “With strict Information & Broadcasting guidelines for the streaming platform (and with more to follow), the major streaming platforms are playing it as safe as they can. All of their forthcoming series are being tooth combed by “experts” to make sure there aren’t any spiritual or political references,” the report acknowledged.“None at all, good or bad. We are henceforth going to black out all references to politics and religion,” an OTT content material producer advised the publication, including that every one content material with political and spiritual references (together with Tandav)is presently “on hold”. Although Amazon Prime has learnt its lesson and put political and religiously-sensitive content material on maintain, Netflix has gone forward to offer the inexperienced sign to the second season of the controversial anti-child present – ‘Bombay Begums’.Before Amazon’s official assertion, the director and creator of Tandav, Ali Abbas Zafar had come out with a proper apology on Twitter. His assertion learn, “Tandav is a fictional work and any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental. The cast and crew never had any intentions to hurt religious beliefs or insult any institution. The team of ‘Tandav’ respects the concern of the public and offers an unconditional apology.”‘Tandav’ in a way had proved to be the tipping level, after which reining in OTT platforms turned obligatory. Therefore, to forestall Hindu-phobic internet content material, the Information Technology Ministry had issued the OTT and digital media tips (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code, 2021). The guidelines drafted within the tips particularly holds the grip on the content material airing on OTT platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime and social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.Read extra: Amazon’s unconditional apology over Tandav is the start of the tip of OTT apps’ HinduphobiaA collective voice of opposition to outrageous content material is what made Amazon bend the knee. Other OTT platforms can be effectively suggested to do the identical, lest they too wish to court docket repeated controversies.