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The Hindu
The Hindu
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M P Praveen

A dig at bad roads in film poster triggers cyber war

An advertisement of Nnaa Thaan Case Kodu, the latest Malayalam flick acted and produced by Kunchacko Boban and directed by Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval, kicked up a social media storm on the film’s release on Thursday.

The advertisement published in all mainstream newspapers chose to give a spin and urged viewers to make it to theatres despite the potholes on roads. With the raging row over the sorry state of roads and whether the roads maintained by the State government agencies or the Centre were the worst, the advertisement assumed political hues quite spectacularly triggering a war of words along ideological lines on social media.

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