K.G.F. Chapter 2: Actor Yash Gets Notice For THIS Scene In Teaser

 K.G.F. Chapter 2: Actor Yash Gets Notice For THIS Scene In Teaser

The Karnataka health department has raised concern over the Kannada film, 'K.G.F. Chapter 2' for THIS reason. Read on.

A few days back, the much-awaited teaser of the Kannada periodic action film, ‘K.G.F. Chapter 2’ was released by Hombale Films on YouTube and it's created an enormous record by garnering over 140 million views. It also became the amount 1 Twitter trend in India, a couple of minutes after its release.

Now, the manufacturers have landed into legal trouble because the Karnataka health department has raised concern over a scene within the teaser during which Yash, who essays the role of protagonist Rocky Bhai is seen smoking and this didn't go well with the department as they need sent a notice and appealed the actor to require steps to get rid of this teaser.

In one among the scenes, it shows Yash berating a row of jeeps with a machine gun then , goes on to light a cigarette using the barrel of the red-hot gun.

According to the notice, as per the statutory requirement, it's necessary to display a warning on the screen with the caption “Smoking is injurious to health”, however, neither the teaser nor the publicity posters display any such message.

The notice stated and have requested Yash to get rid of the smoking scene from the teaser and also from all the social media platforms.”Both the teaser and therefore the posters encourage cigarette smoking. Yash, you're a heart-throb and you've got immense fan following. Your actions shouldn't mislead the kids . we would like you to hitch our campaign against cigarette smoking,” said the notice.

The Karnataka State Anti-Tobacco Cell said that it violated Section 5 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply, and Distribution) 2003, also mentioned as COTPA 2003 and sought deletion of the teaser from online platforms. However, the cell isn't getting to ask the filmmakers to require away the scene from the film.