Vijay Sethupathi in the matter of past few days came up with an announcement that he will be starring in the official biopic of the legendary Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan. While initially people congratulated Sethupathi as the biopic looked interesting and the role itself was challenging. But as we all know how versatile an actor Vijay Sethupathi is, it is gonna be interesting.
An official motion poster was released on 13th October which gave a brief of what is the movie going to be about. The teaser showed that how Murali had a traumatic childhood with the civil war in Sri Lanka and how he went through every difficulties in his life. The teaser showed specific moments which happens with Murali, like the shooting on the Sri Lankan team bus or his action being termed as illegal, and the umpires used to give frequent no ball signal due to that. But it will also show how he managed and overcame all the obstacles to become the greatest bowler in world cricket. In the last we see the official look of Vijay Sethupathi as Muralitharan as boy oh boy, the resemblance is uncanny.
While most of us would have thought that Vijay will be getting applauded for his work but instead he is getting slammed by the Netizens on Twitter. After watching the motion poster, several people came on to twitter and started trending #ShameOnVijaySethupathi.
The reason behind is that, people are familiar with the civil war which happened in Sri Lanka between the Tamil community of Sri Lanka who were continuously beimg discriminated by The Sinhalese people and it’s government. This lead to a war which lasted from 1983-2009. This lead to the killings of Tamil people in large numbers.
People on Twitter are sharing videos and claiming that Muralitharan despite of being a Tamil himself supports the genocide by the Sri Lankan government and that Vijay being a Tamil actor himself shouldn’t have signed the film. Some even are calling him a traitor to the Tamil Community.
Here are some of the tweets :-