“Pani” director Joju George, who received backlash for threatening a Facebook reviewer over the phone, took to Instagram to “clear the air” about the incident. The actor admitted that he made the phone call but claimed that he was provoked by the reviewer’s words against his film ‘Pani’ on Facebook. He alleged that the reviewer Adarsh ​​deliberately tried to degrade the film by spreading the same review on different platforms.
He also claimed that the reviewer asked people not to watch the film. “There is a lot of hard work behind making the film a success. I’m not against free speech. Reviewers have the right to share their opinions about the movie. There was also a lot of degradation, but I never called anyone else. However, in this particular case, I noticed that the reviewer shared the spoiler of the movie and also shared the same review on different platforms in deliberate attempts to degrade my movie. I’ve told you in the past and I’m telling you now – Life has never been easy for me. I have faced many struggles to get to where I am today. “Pani” is the fruit of a two-year struggle involving so many people. I invested a lot of money into the film and I don’t want it to go to waste just because of one person trying to degrade it on purpose. I will move legally against him,” he said.

The reviewer of the film, who is a research student, shared a voice clip of the conversation between him and Joju George on a social media platform. In the voiceover, Joju is heard threatening and taunting him, while the reviewer, who identified himself as Adarsh, kept his cool. Many people came to the reviewer’s support, criticizing Joju’s intolerance of negative reviews about his film.