PUBLIC PROTEST SATHYAM SHOOTING

By, T.AISHWARYA

The shooting of the film Sathyam was protested and stopped by the general public for sometime, after the stunt men literally beat a tempo driver on the National Highway near Maduravoyal.

According to sources, while the shootings of the film's fighting scenes were in progress, a tempo driver who was on his way to his house, hit one of the vehicles of the film's unit. The film unit had parked a lot of vehicles for its fighting scenes on the National High way without giving any provision for other vehicles to pass through. The innocent tempo driver when wanted to take his tempo to other side hit against one of the vehicles belonged to the film unit, it was learnt.

On hearing the hitting sound, the film's stunt men, immediately pulled the driver out from the tempo and beat him indiscriminately. The driver who could not tolerate the beatings of the stunt men, literally cried for help to save him. A mob who had been watching the pathetic incident at the shooting spot immediately started protesting the film unit from going in for further shooting of the film. They also demanded the stunt men to apologise to the tempo driver.

On coming to know the incident, the police immediately arrived at the spot but it took several hours for them to pacify the general public, it was learnt.

Similar, complaint was reported against the film's stunt man Kanal Kannan. Sometime ago, Kanal entered into an altercation with the film's hero Vishal, over which both of them literally fought with each other. The film's director Rajasekar intervened in the matter and set right the problem amicably , it is said.