Rajinikanth's 2.0 in cell tower trouble?
Updated On: 28 November, 2018 07:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Cellular Operators Association of India sends legal notice to 2.0 makers claiming movie "defamatory" to network service providers; urges CBFC to suspend screening until picture is re-examined
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Akshay Kumar and Rajinikanth
With a day to go before Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar starrer 2.0 hits screens, the makers appear to have landed in a legal soup. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has sent a legal notice to producers — Lyca Productions and Dharma Productions — claiming that the sci-fi thriller falsely depicts phones and mobile towers as harmful to the environment on account of the electromagnetic field emissions from them. The organisation has also urged the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to re-examine the film and suspend the screening until they arrive at a decision.
A senior member of the COAI, on condition of anonymity, revealed to mid-day, "We have written to the Censor Board seeking a re-examination of the film. The legal notice is marked to the film's producers as well as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. The depiction in the film is purely fictional, and defamatory to the operators linked with us. We have aggregated some of the world's largest technological companies."
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