800 row: Rape threat against Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi's minor daughter

Even after Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi walked out of cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan's biopic titled 800, a Twitter user issued rape threats to his minor daughter.

Mumbai:Tamil movie actor Vijay Sethupathi on Monday said everything is over as regards Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan's biopic 800. A troll, however, has descended on the actor's social media issuing rape threats to his minor daughter in a bid to make him understand the pain of Eelam Tamils.

Days after a teen from Gujarat arrested for issuing rape threat to cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni's daughter, now Vijay's daughter is at the target of a troll.

On Monday evening, a troll made a distasteful remark of raping Vijay's daughter so that the actor would understand the pain of Eelam Tamils. Several social media users came down heavily on the offending person and demanded that they be arrested for advocating violence against a child.

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On Monday Muralitharan in a statement said that he had requested Sethupathi to leave the project since he is being pressured by some groups.

Speaking to reporters in Chennai, Sethupathi said everything is over and that is why he had tweeted 'thanks' and 'vannakam' after posting Muralitharan's statement.

Sethupathi was set to play Muralitharan in the biopic 800. However, Tamil fringe groups and political parties sympathetic to Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam (LTTE) demanded that Sethupathi excuse himself from the movie citing Muralitharan's political stand.

The opposition is due to Muralitharan's utterings which are allegedly in favour of the Sri Lanka's ruling regime.