Kamal Haasan has becomre a politician and established his political party Makkal Needhi Maiam. He is a legend of Indian Cinema and after a decade of flops, he delievered a huge blockbuster with Vikram. The movie has showcased him as an assailant fighting for drug free society. It created a new story for his agent Vikram(1986) character and that worked so well that the movie gave rise to LCU, a connected cinematic Universe for Director Lokesh and he made Leo with Vijay, as part of his Universe.
Kamal Haasan reacted like his character Vikram after getting to knowing recent incidents about a foreign woman getting gang raped and a 8-year old getting kidnapped and killed. He saw drugs has a reason for this kind of degeneration in our society. He opined that drugs encourage this kind of criminal behaviour among people and push them to commit crimes in the spur of the moment.
He asked for people to come together beyond politics and raise their voice against narcotic drugs, so that the safety of women and children won’t be under grave scanner like we are witnessing in recent times.
எங்கே போகிறோம்?
புதுச்சேரியில் 8 வயது சிறுமி கடத்திக் கொல்லப்பட்டு சாக்கடையில் வீசப்பட்டிருக்கிறாள். உலகின் பாதி நாடுகளைச் சுற்றிப் பார்த்துவிட்டு இந்தியாவிற்கு வந்த வெளிநாட்டுப் பெண்ணை ராஞ்சியில் ஒரு கும்பல் வன்புணர்வு செய்திருக்கிறது. மங்களூருவில் காதலிக்க மறுத்த பள்ளி…
— Kamal Haasan (@ikamalhaasan) March 6, 2024
In his open letter on X, formerly Twitter, he wrote,
“Where are we going?
An 8-year-old girl was kidnapped and killed in Puducherry and thrown into the drain. A foreign woman who came to India after visiting half the world was gang-raped in Ranchi. Acid thrown on the face of a schoolgirl who refused to fall in love in Mangalore. A young man belonging to the Scheduled caste community who got married for love in Chennai was brutally hacked to death by the girl’s brother. Drugs worth several crores are being confiscated in states like Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.
These incidents raise deep doubts about where we are headed as a society. On the one hand, we are proud of development, superpower and good governance. On the other hand, we are becoming a society where women are not safe, degenerate in the grip of drugs, caste-religious fanaticism. Can losing humanity and reverting to animality be considered development?
Whatever the crimes, whatever their causes, behind them all are drugs that numb humanity. It is a fact that women and children cannot live safely in a country where narcotics circulate freely. The future will not forgive us if we do not suppress this degeneration with an iron fist.
Let’s raise our voice against drugs. Let us join hands against the drug gangs that are destroying the society. Let’s all come together to pave the way for a drug-free nation.”
Sriram Adittya and Sharwanand’s film gets a pleasant title like Manamey!