When the whole of Tamil tinsel world went to Neyveli to protest against Karnataka's intransigence on cauvery waters, this man chose to fast in Marina when Tamil channels carried the program live. He wanted to take all the honors for himself. He was alleged to be part of money swindling when he brokered for return of Rajkumar by no less a person that a former DGP. He refused to lower his salary despite Kollywood skipping 45 days of shooting which sent many support actors to hunger and two of them committed suicide. A person who was so callous about the miseries of fellow workmen was seen as a messiah. 

Recently some of his films were flops despite hype. Baba was one when PMK took to streets and made the film went bust. At that time it was rumoured that all the distributors who took a hit were compensated. This time around, the much hyped Linga, which was facing legal hurdles on copyrights over the original story, also has flopped and distributors are forming a beeline for compensation. 

The Actors daughter turned a producer all of a sudden and launched a movie called Kochadiyan a historical figure with the actor in the lead. With lot of animation scenes, this movie was expected to rake in super profits alas it bombed. Now the news is that EXIm bank has sued for recovery of a whopping 500 crore loan that it had lent to this film and the assets of the actors wife who stood as a guarantor are likely to be auctioned. Imangine in a country where countless number of small businessmen die for want of capital and financial support who are harrassed for defaults due to vagaries in business, some bank lends a whopping amount for a  movie. What kind of a business acumen that the lending bank has had is anyones guess. Akio Marito the founder of Sony once ventured in to Hollywood only to bite the dust. 

This time the actor could plunge in to politics to save himself. Media get ready to announce the arrival of the new messiah