‘Can leave the country’

Kamal Haasan kicked up a huge controversy earlier this year when he said that he would leave the country if he was stopped from releasing Vishwaroopam. Now, even as his next venture, Vishwaroopam 2, is getting ready to hit the screens, the actor-director says he will not take back his statement. Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru on Saturday, Kamal said, “If I am threatened or troubled again as an artiste, I can leave the country. But will the country let me go ” The veteran actor and filmmaker, whose next project is a Tamil-Kannada bilingual with Ramesh Aravind, also used the opportunity to bat for bilingual films, saying, “We should do bilinguals now, so that we are able to reach out to all of South India.” Kamal was last seen in Sandalwood in Ramesh Aravind’s Rama Shama Bhama which was the remake of his own film, Sathi Leelavati. Now, Kamal is all set to make a comeback in Kannada with Ramesh’s new film, which will be launched next year.