When filmmaker Magizh Thirumeni sits with us for another chat, this time on video , he seems eager to address all that has been weighing him down over the last few weeks. A lot has happened since he last spoke to us , which was just a few hours before it was announced that Vidaamuyarchi , his long-awaited action-thriller starring Ajith Kumar, had to postpone its plans to release during Pongal . A collective fandom poured its heart out on social media; remember, they have been waiting for a long time to catch their superstar under Magizh’s direction, and they were expecting a trailer, not a postponement notice.
“I felt quite dejected. Everyone, including Lyca Productions, was upset and it took us a day or two to get out of it. However, we all understood the reasons behind it, and the producers did make a concerted, sincere effort to ensure this wasn’t the case,” says Magizh.
Furthermore, a lot of what the filmmaker had said in our interview about preparing the audiences for what awaits them — like, how it was the star who provided the source material, and why it isn’t unlike anything both of them had done in their careers — were misconstrued, as, say, Magizh justifying an inferior product that is in the making. This, as Magizh says in a shocking revelation, is not an isolated incident, but a series of attempts from a certain group that has targeted him right from the project’s inception. Any other filmmaker working on any other project might have buckled under .
