Smoking Kaali Row Escalates: Filmmaker Leena Manimekalai Provokes Again; Several FIRs Filed

Smoking Kaali Row: In the latest developments, Leena Manimekalai on Thursday shared a photo on her Twitter handle that has created a social media uproar yet again.In the photo, a man and woman, presumably local actors dressed as Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati, are shown smoking a cigarette. The photograph has attracted mixed reactions from netizens with most stating that the director is 'seeking publicity' and nothing more.

Toronto-based filmmaker Leena Manimekalai has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. The filmmaker stirred a controversy after she shared a poster from her documentary titled Kaali on her Twitter handle that depicted Goddess Kaali smoking a cigarette, holding a trident in one hand and an LGBTQ flag in the other. The poster did not go down well with netizens who later trended #arrestleenamanimekalai on Twitter and demanded she is arrested for hurting religious sentiments.

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