Baahubali 2 In Trouble : S.S Rajamouli and Producers should be Arrested?
Animal rights campaigner, Heritage Animal Task Force, has demanded action against maker and director of the multilingual film Baahubali 2 for professedly illegally using an elephant for shoot, without taking earlier authorization from the Animal Welfare Board of India.
Baahubali 2 In Trouble : S.S Rajamouli and Producers should be Arrested?
The outfit asserted that the film team had disregarded standards and utilized the large, Chirackal Kalidasan, for the shoot at Thrissur as of late, without getting any pre-shoot certificate from AWBI according to the Performing Animals Registration Rule 2001. The Thrissur-based Task Force sent a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as of late requesting action against the maker, Director and camera man of the film and the proprietor and mahout of the elephant in such manner.
Task Force Secretary V.K. Venkatachalam said the film team claimed that they had utilized the elephant for shooting with the purpose of graphic representation of showing the movement of the animal for their proposed movie.
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“For the entire time of the four hours of the shooting, this elephant was compelled to remain in the midst of the high beam electric light for most extreme shading impact amid the shoot,” he said in the letter. The mahout, amid the shooting, had utilized the banned weapon “ankush” to propel the elephant to comply with his commands and keep its forehead up for long period of time, he said in the letter, which was released to media.
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There was no creature welfare officer at the venue of the film shooting, the activist said, including, more than 50 persons of the film group were making sounds causing disturbance to the elephant all through the shooting.
“We ask for the PMO to issue requests to the police and other law enforcement agencies to arrest the maker, director and cameraman of the film and the proprietor of the elephant and its mahout for their illegal use of jumbor for film shooting,” he said. He said compelling the elephant to keep its forehead up is an violation of the PCA Act 1960.