‘Vetrimaaran Shouldn’t Have Lost His Virtue’ - Solgar Thotti Novel Author Slams Viduthalai Director!

Solgar Thotti Novel Author Balamurugan has given an explanation regarding the criticism that several scenes from driector Vetrimaaran's Viduthalai Part 1 movie have been taken from his Novel.

The film is directed by Vetrimaran, starring Soori and Vijay Sethupathi in the lead roles. The film was released in theaters on March 31st and has been well received.

The film Viduthalai Part 1 has talked about issues such as how much the police department tortures the hill dwellers. Although it was highly praised by fans, there have been criticisms that many of the scenes in the film have been taken from Solakar Thotti Novel.

The novel Solakar Thotti, written by lawyer Balamurugan, dealt with the extreme violence inflicted by the forest department on the hill tribe people during the search for Veerappan. Novel author Balamurugan has now broken his silence regarding the copyright issue.

In the explanation given by him, "When the pre-release footage of Vetri Maran's film came out last month, a friend told that the film was based on a forest and the story moves from the point of view of a policeman, and he doubted whether there would be scenes from Solakar Thotti novel. But even though I never knew the director Vetrimaaran in person, being a director who continues to film the central story of novels and is interested in literature, I strongly assumed that Solakar Thotti would not have any influence.

Since the release of the film, various friends have mentioned that the film contains many scenes from the Solakar Thotti novel. I saw the movie yesterday. The film goes through some political themes and some period setting with a thrilling experience for the audience. I also felt that the plot and characters of the movie were an extension of Solakar Thotti background.

Especially if we take away the opening scene of the film, the train explosion, and the final scene, the capture of a man named Perumal, the story is set in a hilly area, a tribal village, and it is an area where terrorists are hunted. A constable with humanity in a police force is working there. In the Solakar Thotti novel this guard is named Subhash. Not only that but the man who rescues a young girl named Malli from the camp, takes her alive in a jeep and takes her home. A policeman who stands as a kind of consolation when the people are suffering from torture. The film's hero stands as an extension and expansion of this character.

The film's police camp scenes, starting with the cutting of fingernails, the torture of a woman by asking her father-in-law's location, the killing of the woman's child, and the tortures of the camp can be assumed to have been taken from the Solakar Thotti. Even though Veerappan is replaced by Vathiyar, the plot of the story is influenced by Solakar Thotti.

A director like Vetimaaran is a role model for many young aspiring filmmakers. He should not have lost the integrity of creative virtue by distorting a fact, connecting events with false history, making some changes to another's work and presenting it as his work.

The voice of disenfranchised tribals and other hill villages embedded in Veerappan's quest could have been carried with transparency and humanity on a global scale. Where only violence is shown, the tribal life and the lives of the people whose love has been destroyed could have been talked about more. Creative virtue would not have fallen."