An engineering student from Chennai, VV Vaageesan, has filed a legal notice against the makers of Amaran, demanding ₹1.1 crore in compensation for the distress caused by his phone number being shown in the film. According to a report by The Hindu, Vaageesan claims that after the film’s release on October 31, he began receiving incessant calls from Sai Pallavi’s fans, who mistook his number for hers. The number, shown in a romantic scene between Sai Pallavi and Sivakarthikeyan’s characters, Indhu and Major Mukund, is linked to Vaageesan’s Aadhar card and bank accounts, making it impossible for him to change it easily.
Vaageesan, who was celebrating Diwali with his family when the calls started flooding in, initially didn’t realize why he was receiving so many calls. However, after discovering the number was shown in the film, he has been unable to carry out normal activities due to the constant interruptions. He has since demanded the number be removed from the film and compensation for the “mental agony” caused by the issue.
This is not the first instance of a phone number causing legal trouble. In 2003, a person whose phone number was used in the film Shivamani starring Nagarjuna filed a similar lawsuit after receiving numerous calls. A similar incident also occurred in 2018, when a man from Jharkhand sued over a phone number appearing in the Akhil Akkineni-starrer Hello.
Amaran, produced by Kamal Haasan’s Raaj Kamal Films International, is an adaptation of India’s Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes and depicts the life of Major Mukund, a hero who died during a counterterrorism operation and was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra.