After the infamous incident where Ilayaraja lost his cool and yelled at a reported for asking his opinion on Beep Song, composer James Vasanthan blogged about the issue where he defended the journalist’s right to question and suggested that Raja could have politely refused his curious question. The ensuing debate on Twitter about the issue with Raja fans resulted in Vasanthan deactivating his Twitter account after he got entangled in a war of words.
Now, he has sent an official statement apologizing to Ilayaraja fans, who are visibly hurt by his views.
The recent developments around my views and comments over Raaja sir’s issue has snowballed and has got bigger than ever. I want to put a full stop to all these by saying sorry to his fans who I understand have been hurt by my views. But, there are few miscreants who are maliciously posting false messages using my name and picture just to make it serious. It started last evening and that’s why I had to deactivate my Twitter account. Please don’t fall prey to it and believe those concocted stuff. As you all know I speak my mind but I will be the last one to hurt someone and definitely not the Tamil community on the whole. Let’s leave this behind and move forward.