State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities SH Panchapakesan has issued notices to filmmaker Shaji Kailas and producers Supriya Menon and Listin Stephen, seeking an explanation for the alleged derogatory dialogues against persons with disabilities in the film. bitterDirected by Shaji Kailas.
The order to issue the notice was based on a complaint filed by the family, an association of parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
In a sequence in the film, the protagonist played by Prithviraj says that children with disabilities are born with such circumstances as a result of the sins of their parents. The family in its complaint said that such unscientific and insensitive communication causes great pain to the parents of children with disabilities as well as to the children themselves.
It is an offense as per Section 92 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, which deals with the punishment of intentional insult or intimidation with intent to humiliate the disabled person at any place within public view.
After the release of the film on Friday, many people raised the issue on social media.