Reply With QuoteOriginally Posted by KarthikeyaN
In a sensational development director A.R. Murugadoss was said to have taken away by the police in a shocking manner today (February 29). The police is said to have taken away the director when he was coming out of writer Sujatha’s house where he had gone to pay his tributes to the writer.
The problem, according to sources, is related to the financial problems pertaining to the blockbuster ‘Ghajini’, which fetched him a lot of fame. The arrest took place following a complaint filed by producer Salem Chandrasekhar who produced ‘Ghajini’. The producer in his complaint is believed to have stated that Murugadoss had not consulted him on the Hindi remake and he was also not paid his share for remaking the film.
Police sources confirm that the Salem police have arrested the director. Murugadoss has earlier given hits in ‘Dheena’ and ‘Ramana’ with Ajith and
Vijayakanth respectively. He has also directed Chiranjeevi in Telugu. Currently, the talented young director is busy directing Aamir Khan for the Hindi remake of ‘Ghajini’.
Director Murgadoss’ arrest took a surprising but pleasant turn today. In earlier reports Behindwoods had wished that the dispute between his producer and him be settled soon with a good compromise by both parties, enabling the Hindi remake of Ghajini to go on as scheduled. It looks like this might happen sooner than we thought or hoped for.
The budget of the 2005 super hit Ghajini had overshot a lot. Though the movie was a hit, the producer Salem Chandrashekar said he had undergone some losses. To compensate, Murgadoss had agreed to make one more movie for the producer. Recently, though, Chandrashekar alleged that the director had reneged on his promise and neither had he taken his permission to remake the movie in Hindi. Frustrated, he had lodged a complaint with the police and had Murgadoss arrested.
As he was being escorted by the police to Salem, they were stopped on the way at Chengelpet by a call from a higher-up police official who asked that the director be returned to the K K nagar police station in Chennai. Murgadoss was released. The police have requested the producer and the director to settle their dispute in a producer or director’s council and not make it a legal issue.
