Vijay Thalapathy Trolled For Donating To Covid-19 Relief Funds, Producer Suresh Kamatchi Takes A Stand For Him
Vijay Thalapathy Trolled For Covid 19 Donations
Updated : May 12, 2020 07:32 PM IST
Popular Tamil Actor Thalapathy Vijay has donated a huge sum for COVID-19 relief to various government funds, but his contribution has been belittled and trolled by politician and editor Gurumurthy. Gurumurthy made a statement in which he said, "Vijay Thalapathy took loans to get the money for the donation because all his money was confiscated by the income tax department earlier this year."
Vijay Thalapathy Trolled For Donating To Covid-19 Relief Funds, Producer Suresh Kamatchi Takes A Stand For Him
Vijay's friend and producer Suresh Kamatchi took to his official Twitter account to slam Gurumurthy for his comments on the Bigil actor. On Monday, he wrote in favour of Vijay saying one should appreciate the efforts of the superstar and think, even after not being in a good financial position, he is trying to help those who are in need in whatever way it is possible. He tweeted in Tamil, it read, “Gurumurthy, who has profited by lobbying with politicians, has not even donated a small amount and yet he has trolled Thalapathy Vijay who did it in spite of the situation he is in. I strongly condemn Gurumurthy for his troll.” Take a look :
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >அரசியல்வாதிகளை கைக்குள் போட்டு சம்பாதித்ததிலிருந்து இதுவரை கொரானா நிதிக்காக அஞ்சு பைசா கழட்டாத #குருமூர்த்தி ..
— sureshkamatchi (@sureshkamatchi) May 9, 2020
தன் இக்கட்டையும் கடந்து #Thalapathy @actorvijay
நேயமுடன் உதவியதை நக்கலடித்திருப்பதை வன்மையாகக் கண்டிக்கிறேன்.
நிலை பிறழ்ந்த செயல் இது! pic.twitter.com/Z5y62b9wEt
Vijay Thalapathy donated a hefty sum of One Crore and thirty Lakhs to the south Indian state government funds, The Prime Minister Relief Funds and the FEFSI union. The Tamil superstar also donated money to his fans who lost their family members to the virus.
It was in the month of February, ’20, that an income tax raid at Vijay’s residence in Chennai and according to media reports, no money or documents were seized even after a 23-hour rigorous search. This was after the success of his film Bigil that was reported to collect more than Rs 300 crore at the box office, the income tax department had already seized documents and a sum of Rs 77 Crores from the residence of the film’s financier Anbu Chelian.
There was constant support from Vijay’s fans and he began shooting his next film titled Master, the film is now in the last stage of its production.