Mersal -GST Dialogues-After Effects

Tamilnadu state politics always moves hand in hand with cine field.This trend started in the late 60s and Annadurai became the Chief Minister.Congress party under the leadership of Kamaraj the kingmaker had to give way to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party.From then only Dravidian parties seized power in the state.Even of late CM Jayalalitha, the trend continued. At present people of Tamilnadu are looking forward to Rajinikanth, Kamalhasan like stars to enter political field.

With the entry of Bharatiya janata party (BJP) at the centre, holding reins of government there could be a very slight visible change .'Mersal' movie has become centre of controversy due to some dialogues in the film. Vijay has acted in this movie. The cinema contained some criticism about Goods and Service tax (GST) that high GST is levied on some products but no free medical treatment is provided and Singapore contains less GST and free treatment is provided became a target for intimidation.

Production office of Vishal in Chennai was searched by Income Tax Department officials of Tax deducted at source (TDS) wing.It was on the allegations of evasion of Rs 51 lakh TDS collected but not deposited into the government account this search was conducted.

Vishal is also the president of Tamil Film Producer Council.
When BJP leader H Raja demanded to remove GST dialogues from the movie.Vishal gave support to those dialogues.kamal Hasan and Super star Rajinikanth also did not find any fault in those dialogues.Some other cine people too backed them.Vishal retort about Raja seeing piracy movies could have irritated BJP which came in heavily against the actor.Some said it was only routine assessment.