MUMBAI: Ashram is a series about a police officer who investigates a preacher who cons his devoted followers out of money. The series has been a superhit and now, Prakash Jha is currently shooting the upcoming season of Ashram 3 in Bhopal.

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The makers reportedly have faced some backlash from Bajrang Dal activists. The set was said to have been ransacked on Sunday (October 25) and the activists allegedly threw ink on its producer-director Prakash Jha. Bajrang Dal reportedly accused Prakash Jha of portraying Hindus wrongly and also threatened that it would not allow the shooting of this web series further. The police report revealed that the windscreens of two buses of the crew were also broken in stone-pelting.

The activists also raised slogans against Prakash Jha and Bollywood actor Bobby Deol who is playing the leading role in the web series. Bajrang Dal activists objected that this web series hurt the sentiments of Hindus as it contains obscene scenes. It is said that Prakash Jha wrongly portrayed the arrangements in a Hindu ashram in its previous seasons by showing the exploitation of women by gurus.

"We blackened the face of Prakash Jha and are searching for Bobby Deol, who should learn from his elder brother Sunny Deol (Bollywood actor and BJP MP), who has played roles in patriotic movies," Sushil Surhele said. The show's first season was released amid the pandemic in 2020 on MX Player and garnered a lot of love from fans and some mixed reviews from critics.

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CREDIT: Filmibeat