Mumbai: Veteran superstar Kamal Haasan, during one of the promotional events for his upcoming film ‘Thug Life,’ apparently cracked a poor joke on his co-star Trisha Krishnan, which hardly amused netizens.
When the host of the event asked Trisha about her favourite food, the actress said that she liked eating boiled bananas, but she doesn’t know the name of the dish.
“I like eating them all, but I like boiled banana more. What’s it called?” Trisha said.
To this, Kamal quipped that while Trisha doesn’t know the name of the dish, but she knows how to eat a banana.
“She doesn’t know the name but likes putting it in her mouth,” Kamal joked.
Netizens were quick to criticise Kamal for his terrible joke.
One user commented, “Eww eww eww.”
Another person wrote, “Toxic Kamal.”
“18+ Dawww,” pointed out one person, while another wrote, “imagine What if Chiranjeevi Says thattt.”
Kamal’s fans, however, defended him by saying that it was just a joke which some people misunderstood.
“The filth lies in the mind looking for dirt. @ikamalhaasan quipped, as he has many times, about fellow actors’ Tamizh. Nothing offensive,” remarked one of the actor’s backers.
Another wrote, “What is double meaning in this? clearly its visible that KH meant it in a comic way but the words he chose was wrong. He then realizes it and pats Trisha to make the situation less weird and kudos to the host for changing the topic.”
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Imagine the outrage if any Telugu senior hero passed the same comment. Disgusting!! pic.twitter.com/d7xhtYesMu
— Aakashavaani (@TheAakashavaani) April 21, 2025
Directed by Mani Ratnam, ‘Thug Life’ stars Kamal, Silambarasan, Trisha, Ashok Selvan, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Joju George, Abhirami, Nassar, Ali Fazal, Pankaj Tripathi, Sanya Malhotra, Rohit Saraf and Vaiyapuri.
The film will hit the theatres on June 5.
