Bahubali 2 in trouble ..?

Animal

rights
campaigner,
Heritage
Animal
Task
Force,
has
demanded
action
against producer and director of
the multilingual movie Baahubali
2 for allegedly illegally using an
elephant for shooting in the state
without taking prior permission
from the Animal Welfare Board of
India.
The outfit alleged that the film
crew had violated norms and
used the jumbo, Chirackal
Kalidasan, for the shooting of the
movie at Thrissur recently
without obtaining any pre-shoot
certificate from AWBI as per the
Performing Animals Registration
Rule 2001.
The Thrissur-based Task Force
sent a letter to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi recently
demanding action against the
producer, director and camera
man of the film and the owner
and mahout of the elephant in
this regard.
Task Force Secretary V K
Venkatachalam said the film
crewclaimed that they had used
the elephant for shooting for the
purpose of graphic
representation of showing the
movement of the animal for their
proposed movie.
For the whole period of the four
hours of the shooting, this
elephant was forced to stand
amid the high power electric
light which beam high voltage
light effect for maximum colour
effect for film shooting, he said
in the letter.
The mahout, during the
shooting, had used the banned
weapon 'ankush' to compel the
elephant to obey his commands
and keep its forehead up for a
long period of time, he said in
the letter, which was released to
media.
There was no animal welfare
officer at the venue of the film
shooting, the activist said,
adding, more than 50 persons of
the film team were making
sounds causing high
disturbances to the elephant
throughout the shooting.