Vijay Antony clarifies his statement about Jesus drinking wine: ‘I didn’t mean it in the wrong way’

 

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Vijay Antony added that he made the statement in reply to a question by a journalist. “It is saddening that my statement was taken out of context and has hurt some of you. I never said anything in a wrong way, and I request you all to not misunderstand it. Even in dreams, I can’t portray someone like Jesus Christ, a person beyond religion, who shed blood and sacrificed himself for people, in a bad light.”

Earlier, at the press meet, Antony was asked about the poster of his film Romeo, which has the heroine Mrinalini fixing a drink on the first night. A journalist asked the actor whether his film is promoting drinking among women when everyone is striving to get rid of alcoholism altogether. The actor replied, “Let’s not demarcate that alcohol is only for men. Drinking is for everyone. If men can drink, women too can. I am not promoting drinking. Just saying everything is common for both men and women. If we are to say it is wrong to drink, we should tell it to both genders.”

He was then asked if the film is trying to claim that the IT revolution has made women drink. Antony said, “Nothing like that. We have been drinking for a long time. We used to drink ‘sarayam’ (now banned in Tamil Nadu). Now, we drink different things. Two thousand years before, even Jesus (Christ) drank wine.”