Law Students Offer One Crore If Mersal Team Proves Free MedicaI Care in Singapore

A section of law students in Coimbatore offered Rs one crore to the producers of the film ‘Mersal’ and actor Vijay if they proved that Singapore is providing free medical care. Failing which, they sought the same from the producer and the actor of the film ‘for giving wrong information to the public through their film without any basis’, they said in a petition submitted to the police on Wednesday (26 October).

Referring to a dialogue from the film which says medical care is free in Singapore, they said the film was inciting the people against the Government by giving false information.

Objecting to certain portions of the film like the suggestion for the construction of a hospital in the place of a temple, the actor entering a temple with footwear on, the students asked the police to register a case against the director, actors Vijay and Vadivelu and the producers Thenandal Films for giving false information and hurting the sentiments of Hindus.

Meanwhile, Hindu Makkal Katchi president, Arjun Sampath also took serious objection to the way the film has projected digital India and Goods and Services Tax (GST). The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had protested against the film over dialogues allegedly flaying the GST. Tamil Nadu BJP leaders, including state unit chief Tamilisai Soundararajan and national secretary H Raja, have strongly opposed references to the GST in the just-released Tamil movie and claimed dialogues in it were “highly inappropriate”.

(PTI)