On Tuesday, Naveen Mohamedali, the director of the critically acclaimed Tamil film 'Moodar Koodam,' expressed his sadness and concern about the growing hijab issue in Karnataka.

"Looking at this scenario, one is both hurt and afraid," the director remarked, posting a video clip that revealed the intensity of the continuing controversy about not allowing Muslim girl students to wear hijabs inside educational institutions. The director went on to say that we had let the poison of religious extremism to enter young souls, and that one could not remain quiet, assuming that this would not happen here because it was Periyar country.

The director pointed out that "only a drop of poison is enough to poison a pot of pure water."  In a number of tweets on Sunday, the director made it plain that wearing the mangalsutra or the hijab was a personal choice for women. "...My mother, a Muslim by birth, never wore a pardha." My wife, a Hindu by birth, refused to wear a mangalsutra.

"However, both of them made those choices. They were not forced to make such judgments by anyone. Women must make their own decisions about what they want to wear. Nobody has the authority to order in this subject, whether it's a parent, a spouse, or society," he had stated.

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