Director
Vetrimaaran's
recent
speech
about
Raja
Raja
Cholan
created
strong
debates
in
Tamilnadu.
Celebrities
and
social
activists
supports
Vetrimaaran
and
stands
with
what
he
said
about
the
great
Chola
king.
Senthamizhan
Seeman
who
is
an
Indian
politician,
filmmaker
and
the
chief-coordinator
of
the
political
party
Naam
Tamilar
Katchi
recently
extended
his
supporting
hands
to
Vetrimaaran
in
a
press
meet
held
at
Chennai.
"My
dear
brother
Vetrimaaran
will
direct
the
true
history
of
the
revered
ancestor
of
Tamils,
King
Arulmozhi
Cholan
and
the
story
of
the
unparalleled
freedom
fighter
of
this
century,
Methaku
Velupillai
Prabhakaran.
I
will
produce
them
as
the
greatest
films
of
art"
tweets
Seeman
in
his
official
Twitter
handle.
This
tweet
from
Seeman
went
viral
in
the
internet.
Director
Mani
Ratnam's
Magnum
Opus
movie
Ponniyin
Selvan
1
is
running
successfully
across
the
globe
in
four
languages
Tamil,
Malayalam,
Telugu
and
Hindi.
Especially
in
Tamilnadu,
Ponniyin
Selvan
1
is
creating
great
records
with
its
box
office
collection.
The
film
is
based
on
legendary
writer
Kalki's
Ponniyin
Selvan
Novel
and
it
is
the
best-selling
novel
in
Tamilnadu
book
festivals
till
2022.
But
at
the
same
time,
lot
of
people
started
saying
that
the
film
portrays
history
of
Cholas
in
a
wrong
sense.
Ace
director
Vetrimaaran
in
a
recent
event
said,
"In
today's
world,
we
should
handle
and
protect
the
art
very
carefully.
If
we
allow
someone
to
mishandle
it,
our
own
identities
will
be
easily
looted
away
from
us.
Earlier
they
tried
giving
a
saffron
color
to
the
famous
Tamil
poet
Thiruvalluvar.
Now
they
are
trying
to
make
Raja
Raja
Cholan
as
a
Hindu
King.
They
started
this
process
with
arts
and
literature
initially.
Now
it
is
happening
in
cinema
as
well.
It
is
our
duty
to
protect
our
identities.
In
order
to
do
so,
we
should
have
good
clarity
in
politics."
People
started
connecting
Vetrimaaran's
speech
with
Mani
Ratnam's
Ponniyin
Selvan
1.
Lot
of
well-established
filmmakers,
actors
and
political
leaders
also
started
sharing
their
opinion
about
this
controversy.
In
such
a
situation,
Senthamizhan
Seeman's
tweet
about
producing
a
film
on
the
real
history
of
Cholas
and
Velupillai
Prabhakaran
added
fuel
to
the
fire.