Director A R Murugadoss arrested(Ghajini)

February 29th, 2008Related|Filed Under

I don’t how true this is but here you go.

http://www.telugucinema.com/c/publish/news/murugadoss_feb2908.php

Director A.R. Murgadoss, the hit director of Ghajini and Stalin, was today arrested in Chennai. The ace director who is now remaking the Hindi version of Ghajini with Aamir Khan was arrested by the Salem Police on a complaint filed by Salem Chandrasekhar, the Tamil Ghajini producer. Chandrasekhar had filed a police complaint with the Salem Police saying that Murugadoss had kept him in the dark regarding the making of a Hindi version of Ghajini and he has not been paid his due share of the remake rights.

But the manner in which Murgadoss was surreptitiously bundled into a car by police in mufti, in full glare of heavy traffic, made it look like a “film style kidnapping”, according to onlookers.

Courtesy: Sify.com

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  1. Comment by Nitesh on 29 February 2008:

    so…aamir will direct this movie again….

  2. Comment by rks on 1 March 2008:

    Link - Thanks TheSkeptic
    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.

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