An engineering student from Chennai, VV Vaageesan, has filed a lawsuit against the makers of Amaran after receiving an overwhelming number of calls from Sai Pallavi’s fans. The student is seeking ₹1.1 crore in compensation, claiming that his phone number was inadvertently shown in the film.
The issue stems from a scene in Amaran where Sai Pallavi’s character, Indhu Rebecca Varghese, tosses a crumpled piece of paper with her mobile number written on it. Vaageesan alleges that the number displayed in the film is his, and it is linked to personal documents such as his Aadhar card and bank accounts, making it difficult for him to change.
Following the release of the film on October 31, Vaageesan began receiving countless calls from people asking to speak to Sai Pallavi. Initially confused, he soon realized that the number shown in the movie was his own. The student is now demanding ₹1.1 crore for the “mental agony” and “untold hardships” caused by these persistent calls. He has also requested that his number be removed from the film.
Vaageesan claims that since the film’s release, he has struggled to sleep, study, or carry out daily activities due to the constant interruptions. Despite attempts to contact the film’s director, Rajkumar Periyasamy, and lead actor Sivakarthikeyan on social media, his pleas went unanswered.
This is not the first instance of such an issue. A similar case occurred in 2003 with the release of Puri Jagannadh’s Shivamani, where the person whose phone number was shown in the film sued after receiving numerous calls for actor Nagarjuna. A similar lawsuit was filed in 2018 by a man from Jharkhand after his phone number was used in the film Hello, starring Akhil Akkineni.
Amaran, produced by Kamal Haasan’s Raaj Kamal Films International, is an adaptation of the book series India’s Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes by Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh. The film tells the story of Major Mukund, who was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra after dying in a counterterrorism operation.
