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Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan on Tuesday said the recent agitation against the ban on Jallikattu.

The Malaysian Home Ministry has lifted the ban on Kamal Haasan’s controversial Tamil film <em>Vishwaroopam</em>. The National Censorship Board and the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) reportedly studied the film from the religious and security point of view before green lighting the film’s release in the country. Board chairman Datuk Raja Azahar Raja Abdul Manap said that the Department agreed that the movie can now be shown as it was satisfied with the removal of certain scenes considered sensitive after a series of meetings.

Vishwaroopam, the Tamil version of Vishwaroop finally opened on Thursday in 500 theatres across Tamil Nadu to full houses, as expected. Overwhelmed by the response Kamal Haasan said, “There was not a murmur of unrest let alone protest, anywhere in Tamil Nadu. Fans from both the communities, Hindu and Muslim, had assured me there would be absolute peace. Sure enough, the film opened today without any incident. I feel vindicated.” Significantly pirated copies of <em>Vishwaroopam</em> are out in Chennai. But no one’s buying that.

They’ve always been the best of friends and the best of rivals. The two super-icons of Tamil cinema Kamal Haasan and Rajnikanth have always stood by each other and even counselled their respective fanatic fan clubs to desist from disruptive practices against the other superstar’s releases. It therefore comes as no surprise to know that Rajnikanth would be watching Kamal Haasan’s controversial <em>Vishwaroopam</em> today (6 February 2013).