‘Sarkar’ issue is more trouble for me than for Murugadoss – K. Bhagyaraj

One Varun Rajendran has gone to court stating that Thalapathy Vijay’s upcoming film ‘Sarkar’ story has been stolen from his script ‘Sengol’ which he registered with the Writers Union in 2007.  K. Bhagyaraj the President of the Writers Union too has given a letter confirming that the two stories are similar.

We got in touch with K.Bhagyaraj who explained that Varun registered the story in 2007 by bringing a bound script which was then sealed and stamped and handed back to him.  Similarly, A.R. Murugadoss too had registered ‘Sarkar’ script book under the title ‘Pachai’ in 2017.  The legendary actor-filmmaker explained that he spoke to A.R. Murugadoss to add Varun’s name in the credit as a story writer but he had refused and said will handle the matter in court.  Hence the letter of authentication has been issued to Varun to protect his interests.

In his inimitable humorous style Bhagyaraj added that the ‘Sarkar’ issue is causing more problems to him than A.R. Murugadoss.  He stated that while ARM has to only handle Varun, he has to face Sun group with whom he has businesses, worry how this will affect his friendship with S.A. Chandrasekharan and above all since his son Shantanu Bhagyaraj being a  hardcore fan of Vijay too would be unhappy with him.  However Bhagyaraj  signed off saying since he is the President of the union he has to face this delicate situation to protect his members.