despite winning international acclaim for his movie the filmmaker has been warned by the activists who claim that they have been offended by the use of the word sexy along with durgadirector sanal kumar sasidharan made malayalis proud recently by winning the hivos tiger award at the international film festival of rotterdam 2017 for his film sexy durga however soon after the news came out the director started getting threatening messages from radical right wing activistsa peeved director tells us from rotterdam they are offended with the title of my film sexy durga claiming the name is that of a goddess ever since the title was announced i have been facing problems for it but now that the film is in news for the award i am being flooded with intimidating messages and some are even threatening to kill meas he is expected to return to kerala by the end of this month sanal has asked his family residing at trivandrum to take necessary security measures my wife will be filing a complaint in the nearest police station and will seek protection he addssanal has also shared some screenshots of the messages on his social networking page i am getting constant threats from a person claiming to be rahul shrivastava president of hindu swabhiman sangh his problem is that my films title has hurt his religious sentiments since the word sexy and durga are used together when i said my film has nothing to do with goddess durga he asked me why didnt i name my film sexy sreeja referring to my wifes name but sreeja is also a goddess name arrey bhai use the same logic here please durga is the name of so many poor girls too wrote the directorit seems the right wing activists are not sparing sanals family either his wife sreeja says the callers seem to know all the details about our family and whereabouts even sanals assistant directors are receiving such threatening calls i am planning to file a complaint at the vanchiyoor police station sexy durga featuring kannan nayar and rajshri deshpande in the lead roles is a thriller about a couple who elope in the middle of the night and hitch a truckridepolice to conduct a detailed enquiryarul rb krishna dcplaw and order has said that since the calls sanal received were life threatening they will be collecting the numbers of the callers and conducting a detailed enquiry based on the intensity of the threats we will be providing tight security we will treat it as a serious crime as there is a communal element involved if needed we will also seek help from the special branch the victim doesnt have to file a written complaint an oral one is more than enough he said when i said my film has nothing to do with goddess durga he asked me why didnt i name my film sexy sreeja referring to my wifes name sanal kumar sasidharani am not surprised sanal got such