How Mohanlal got spooked: Behind the scenes of Empuraan apology
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Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, Pooja Prasanna, and Nidheesh MK.
In Kerala, all the buzz – political and otherwise – is about the controversy surrounding the movie Empuraan. When Powertrip spoke to BJP sources and industry insiders, we found that it wasn’t a censorship battle or an ideological clampdown. So why did Mohanlal hasten to apologise?
And will Tamil Nadu BJP president Annamalai resign, perhaps paving the way for the re-entry of the AIADMK into the NDA?
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