Director Lingusamy has opened up about the Anjaan debacle and the onslaught of scathing remarks and the negative criticism he was subjected to in the online world in an interview to a national daily. When quizzed about the two most used words – tune ayiten and motha vithayum erakiruken in Lingu Memes, he says, “That interview took place almost a year-and-a-half before Anjaan happened. In fact, I hadn’t decided the story then. What hurt me the most was that it reached even children! One day, when my kids came back from school, they told me, ‘Ayya, ungala pathi ipdi pesaranga’, and I was embarrassed for a while. I just said, ‘Adhellam kanduka vendam ayya,” told Lingusamy.
“After all, didn’t I make Sandakozhi after Ji? Didn’t I deliver Paiyaa after Bheema? In this industry, we just have to keep proving ourselves,” he added. He also confirmed that Thirupathi Brothers has signed Eros International for Kamal Haasan’s Uttama Villain, which is expected to hit screens before or after Pongal and Sivakarthikeyan’s Rajini Murugan. Lingusamy is currently working on the scripts of Yennai Yezhu Naal with Karthi and Sandakozhi 2 with Vishal.