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The Madhya Pradesh government will file a case against the makers of Amazon Prime Video series “Tandav” for allegedly hurting religious sentiments, state Home Minister Narottam Mishra said on Tuesday. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also reacted to the controversy over depiction of Hindu deities in the web series, saying “no one has the right to hurt our faith and insult our deities”. At the heart of the controversy is a scene that features Ayyub’s college student Shiva playing the Hindu god Mahadev in a theatre production.

Earlier, BJP MP Manoj Kotak from Mumbai North-East, Madhya Pradesh minister Vishvas Sarang and state Assembly’s protem Speaker Rameshwar Sharma appealed to Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar to ban the series. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s media advisor Shalabhmani Tripathi on Monday said the makers of “Tandav” will have to pay the price for hurting religious sentiments.