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‘Jai Bhim’ director tweets against Tamil YouTuber Maridhas, fails to answer questions on deliberate distortion of facts

November 25, 2021
The Commune

YouTuber Maridhas recently uploaded a video titled, “Jai Bhim Director’s Letter Is Disgusting. His Purpose Is Criminal!” in Tamil. In the video, Maridhas deconstructs the various points the director mentions in his letters, takes references from the movie Jai Bhim and questions the director who had put a letter justifying the deliberate distortions made in the movie.

For example, the director had mentioned in his letter that the calendar with the ‘Agni Pot’ motif that became a big controversy, was not kept in the movie intentionally, and that it was only retained to establish the time period as 1995. However, Maridhas calls out this bluff by pointing out 5 scenes from the movie which had relevant calendars. He makes it apparent in the video that the makers of the movie deliberately kept the Agni Pot symbol to portray Vanniyars in a negative light. He therefore says that is purely intentional and therefore criminal of the director to even say that it was unintentional.

Maridhas questions Gnanavel for placing the unwanted character of MS Bhaskar in the film and explains the controversy behind that. In addition, he also spoke about writer Kanmani who returned the cheque he was given as remuneration for the movie because he was ‘cheated’ by the team. He has also raised a few more questions regarding the controversies with regard to the movie.

In response to this video, the director of the movie, TJ Gnanavel has put out a tweet. Instead of replying to Maridhas’ pointed questions, Gnanavel has attempted to satirically give back to Maridhas. It is to be noted that he had turned off the option to comment on the tweet. A lot of twitterattis have brought to notice that the director might turned off comments to avoid backlash.

But netizens lashed out at the director with the ‘Quote-tweeting’. Here are some of the responses.