{"id":7725,"date":"2020-10-19T19:12:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.theleonews.com\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2020-10-19T19:12:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T13:42:05","slug":"actor-vijay-sethupathi-quits-800-on-muthiah-muralitharan-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theleonews.com\/en\/actor-vijay-sethupathi-quits-800-on-muthiah-muralitharan-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Vijay Sethupathi quits 800 on Muthiah Muralitharan request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the project 800 was announced, the Tamil media has created a lot of fuss. The film is based on Muttiah Muralidharan, who is a Sri Lankan of Tamil descent. This has not gone well with many in the media.<\/p>\n<p>Things went to the next level when the news was out that none other than Vijay Sethupathi will be playing Murali in the film. The first look also made a lot of noise and the entire Tamil community wanted Vijay to back out of the project.<\/p>\n<p>But Vijay stuck his ground. Murali requested Vijay to drop the project. &#8220;I understand that Vijay Sethupathi is facing a lot of pressure from a few people. I do not want a celebrated actor like him facing trouble because of people who mistook me. Hence, I am asking him to opt out of this biopic.&#8221; posted Murali.<\/p>\n<p>Sethupathi on Monday shared Muralitharan\u2019s statement on Twitter and wrote, \u201cThank you and goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ta\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf.. \u0bb5\u0ba3\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PMCPBDEgAC\">pic.twitter.com\/PMCPBDEgAC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; VijaySethupathi (@VijaySethuOffl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VijaySethuOffl\/status\/1318126679445950464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the project 800 was announced, the Tamil media has created a lot of fuss. 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