Actor Kasthuri Shankar sent to jail till November 29 over anti-Telugu remarks

Soon aft the controversy, the histrion had withdrawn her statements and apologised. However, successful the meanwhile, complaints were filed against her with the police. A Chennai constabulary squad traced her to a movie producer’s location successful Hyderabad and lodged her successful jail. She was brought to Chennai and produced earlier a magistrate tribunal astatine Egmore which sent her to judicial custody till November 29. Later on, she was sent to the Puzhal cardinal prison. Tamil nationalist, Naam Tamizhar Katchi main Seeman felt it was indispensable to apprehension her adjacent aft she issued an apology.

What did Kasthuri say?

The 50-year-old, known for her performances successful films similar Indian and Annamayya, had fuelled a immense contention aft her violative remarks against Telugu people. While talking astatine a nationalist lawsuit successful Tamil Nadu, she had said that Telugu radical were descendants of the courtesans who had served kings successful past times.

As per the actor, radical who travel to a circumstantial governmental ideology, assertion themselves to beryllium Tamils, contempt their Telugu origin, bash not see Tamil Brahmins arsenic Tamils. That was the crushed down them claiming their individuality of ‘Dravidian’ not choosing ‘Tamil,’ arsenic their ideology.