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Films starring Vijay that faced pre-release issues in the last 10 years

ETimes.in | Last updated on - Nov 28, 2022, 11:05 IST
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Films starring Vijay that faced pre-release issues in the last 10 years

Actor Vijay is one of the prominent heroes of South and the actor has done more than 65 films in Tamil. Starting his acting career as a child artist in the year 1984, Vijay made his first lead debut in 1992 with the film ‘Naalaiya Theerpu’. The actor from becoming a youngster’s favourite to having gained the title ‘Ilaya Thalapathi’ and now ‘Thalapathi’, has grown over the past two decades and has reserved a good place for himself in the Kollywood industry. He is now awaiting the release of his film ‘Varisu’ which is set to release on January 12, 2023, and the movie is facing a partial ban on the Telugu version of the movie to be released in Pongal in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Dating back 10 years down the line, we have compiled a list of movies of Vijay that have faced issues before their release!

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Varisu, 2023

Directed by Vamshi Paidipally, the film stars Vijay and Rashmika Mandanna in lead roles. The family emotional drama is a Tamil and Telugu bilingual and is set for its release on Pongal 2023. However, it has now got into trouble, as the Telugu Film Producers Council have placed a partial ban on the Telugu version ‘Varisudu’ to be released on Pongal as they want to prioritize Telugu movie release over other language movies.

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Beast, 2022

Directed by Nelson Dilipkumar, the film starred Vijay and Pooja Hegde in lead roles. The action drama was released on April 13, 2021. As the pan-Indian film ‘KGF 2’ was scheduled for release on April 14, to avoid the clash at the opening, ‘Beast’ which was initially planned for release on April 14, was released a day earlier.

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Master, 2021

Directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, the film starred Vijay, Vijay Sethupathi and Malavika Mohanan in lead roles. While the actor was shooting for the movie’s climax, reportedly, the Income Tax department conducted a raid at his residence and office as it was claimed that the actor has illegal assets. The problem created a lot of ruse among the actor’s fans.

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Bigil, 2019

Directed by Atlee, the film starred Vijay and Nayanthara in lead roles. Vijay plays a dual role in the sports drama. When the first look poster of the film was released with Vijay having his leg on top of the meat chopper, the vendors' association protested against the removal of the poster.

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Sarkar, 2018

Directed by AR Murugadoss, the film starred Vijay and Keerthy Suresh in the lead roles. The political drama, after its release, reportedly faced a claim that the story was plagiarised. Reportedly, Varun Rajendran filed a case at the Madras High Court requesting the screening of the film as he claimed to be the original writer of the story.

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Mersal, 2017

Directed by Atlee, the film starred Vijay in three roles alongside Samantha, Kajal Aggarwal and Nithya Menen. As the film had dialogues that involved GST, and Digital India, the censor certificate of the film was delayed until the last few hours before the release of the film.

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