Notice To ‘Jai Bhim’ Team Demands Apology, Rs 5 Cr In Damages – FilmyVoice

Angered on the “wrongful” depiction of the Vanniyar neighborhood within the Tamil movie ‘Jai Bhim’, starring Suriya, the Vanniyar Sangam president, Pu. Tha. Arulmozhi, has despatched a authorized discover to the producers, director and Amazon, which operates the OTT platform Prime Video, the place the movie is being streamed.

The discover, which claims Rs 5 crore in damages and a public apology, was issued to 2D Leisure, Suriya Sivakumar and his spouse Jyothika, as a result of their firm A.Okay. Worldwide has co-produced the movie, the director-screenwriter T.J. Gnanavel and Amazon.

In accordance with the authorized discover, the film is claimed to have been based mostly on a real-life incident and its storyline attracts upon a call of the Madras Excessive Courtroom.

It retains the names of the individuals who have been concerned within the incidents proven within the movie, so we’ve a Rajakannu, Advocate Chandru and the police officer Perumalsamy. The identify of the sub-inspector of police concerned within the custodial demise of an undertrial, nonetheless, based on the authorized discover, was “intentionally” modified from Anthonysamy to Gurumurthy, and he’srepeatedly known as ‘Guru’.

In one of many scenes within the film, the discover factors out, the ‘Agni Kundam’ (hearth burning from a holy vessel) image of the Vanniyar Sangam is proven within the calendar behind the sub-inspector of police, who commits the atrocity.

The discover says that the makers of ‘Jai Bhim’ had “intentionally” received a calendar made for the 12 months 1995 with the ‘Agni Kundam’. He stated it had been finished with the “mala fide intention of defaming members of the Vanniyar Sangam and damaging the picture and fame of your complete Vanniyar neighborhood.”

In accordance with the Vanniyar Sangam, altering the identify of the villain to Gurumurthy, which resembles that of considered one of its frontline leaders, and projecting him to be from the neighborhood by displaying its ‘Agni Kundam’ image, implied that the members of the neighborhood are susceptible to committing wrongs and taking unlawful actions.

“My consumer states that by varied symbolic representations in your film, you’ve wantonly, wilfully and deliberately portrayed the character of the sub-Inspector of police, who’s responsible of committing a custodial demise within the movie and in addition within the real-life story, belongs to Vanniyar neighborhood, whereas the stated sub-Inspector doesn’t belong to Vanniyar neighborhood,” the discover states.

“It can’t be thought of as an informal, harmless, inadvertent mistake and pure sequence within the film,” the authorized discover reads. It provides that the scene was included solely “with a view to maligning the picture of the Vanniyar neighborhood folks within the society and with a view to defaming your complete neighborhood as a complete.”

Other than demanding Rs 5 crore in damages, the Vanniyar Sangam has additionally sought the removing of the “defamatory scenes”, references to the Vanniyar neighborhood and its image, the ‘Agni Kundam’, from the film. And it has sought an unconditional apology from the movie’s producers and author for tarnishing the fame of Vanniyars.

Earlier, PMK chief and Rajya Sabha MP Anbumani Ramadoss had written to Suriya citing the objectionable parts within the film, alleging that they intentionally focused the Vanniyars.

Responding to the cost, Suriya had identified that the ‘Jai Bhim’ unit had put out a disclaimer proper at first of the film, saying that this was a narrative that had solely been impressed by an actual incident and that the characters, names and occasions have been solely fictional.