“You won’t believe it, he’s called me a hundred times since morning,” actor Goundamani’s legal representative, K. Sasikumar told Silverscreen. The ace comedian who’s beloved by Tamil audience, and whose lines and jokes have become an important part of popular culture, is reportedly very upset with the way his image, name and dialogue have been used in Sixer. The movie written and directed by debutante Chachi, stars Vaibhav Reddy and Pallak Lalwani, alongside Sathish and Radha Ravi.
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“They cannot use his photo in their film to begin with,” Sasikumar explains. The thing that seems to have really upset the comedian is a dialogue the lead actor says while looking at his photo. “He looks at Mr. Goundamani’s photo and says, ‘Thaatha who knows what sins you committed at nights, I have night-blindness’.” This scene is a riff on the night-blindness trope used by Goundamani’s ‘Cook Kandasamy’ in the Tamil film Chinnathambi. Goundamani has demanded that the makers delete these scenes from the film and apologise to him. He also expects an apology from Vaibhav Reddy, failing which he says, criminal and civil defamation proceedings will follow.
The legal notice reads, “The movie is causing serious disrepute to our client’s fair name and reputation and hence, in the name of justice, it would be just and equitable for you to immediately delete the said scene from the movie and also tender an open public apology for having misused our client’s photo and dialogue in the movie ‘Sixer’.”
The offending video: