Tamil version of Baahubali is doing superb at the box office despite a stiff competition from Dhanush's Maari which released last Friday. However a controversy engulfed the movie there. A dialogue in the movie is said to have insulted a caste and that Caste people are agitating against the movie for the last few days.
Situation turned out of control after a petrol bomb was dropped on one of the theater screening Baahubali in Madurai. Finally, that forced the Tamil writer of the movie, Madhan Karky to apologize. There was a word ‘pagadai’ in the movie which denoted Sakkiliayar people (a sub-caste of dalit), which is considered to be derogatory.
He apologized for them and said he did not mean to insult them in any ways. "I didn’t know that it was a name of a community. We even have few scenes in the movie in which the hero stand against casteism. Our intention is not to speak ill of anyone. We will remove the word either by deletion or mute very soon,” Madhan Karky said.
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