Vijay Sethupathi opts out of Muralitharan’s biopic ‘800’

Chennai, Oct 19 : Tamil movie actor Vijay Sethupathi on Monday said everything is over as regards Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan’s biopic ‘800’.
On Monday Muralitharan in a statement said that he had requested Sethupathi to leave the project since he is being pressured by some groups.
Speaking to reporters here, Sethupathi said everything is over and that is why he had tweeted ‘thanks’ and ‘vannakam’ after posting Muralitharan’s statement.
Sethupathi was set to play Muralitharan in the biopic ‘800’.
Tamil fringe groups and political parties sympathetic to Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam (LTTE) demanded that Sethupathi excuse himself from the movie citing Muralitharan’s political stand.
The opposition is due to Muralitharan’s utterings which are allegedly in favour of the Sri Lanka’s ruling regime.