In the case of hurting religious sentiments, 'Tandav' defendant Mukul Rohatgi said that despite the removal of the controversial scenes, 7 FIRs have been registered in six states on the web-series and the makers. Every day new FIRs are also coming to the fore. It is better that all the FIRs be clubbed and a trial run in Mumbai. Mukul Rohatgi in an interview with a leading Hindi Daily was expressing his views after the Supreme Court of India declined to give protection to the makers and Amazon Prime authorities in the Tandav controversy.
Mukul, said, "I thought we should have got protection like Arnab Goswami did, but we had a positive [outcome] in the [possible] clubbing of the cases." He pointed out that the Supreme Court is considering the petitioners’ request of combining the different FIRs across states. “[Earlier], we would have to go to six different high courts to tackle the different cases. But if all the FIRs are clubbed in Bombay or any one state, we can challenge all of them in the [corresponding] high court. The Supreme Court intends to club all the cases."
The petitioners were represented by senior advocates Fali Nariman, Mukul Rohatgi (for Amazon India Creative Head Aparna Purohit), senior advocate Sidharth Luthra (for producer Himanshu Mehra, director Ali Abbas Zafar and writer Gaurav Solanki), and advocate Siddharth Agarwal (for actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub).
Mukul on multiple FIRs said that our clients believe that there is nothing objectionable in the show. It is a social and political story. Yet there is a ruckus in everything in India. Even after we cut the scenes there are 4 to 6 FIRs have been filed so far. Those FIRs have no merit. There is no issue of releasing relentless sentiment from anywhere.
All those who have filed FIRs are publicity seekers. The idea is that their name also appear in newspapers. I have fought fifty such cases. Some did against Arnab Goswami and some against a serial. I fought a similar case when a painting by MF Hussain was disputed.