Madras High Court Issues Notice On Plea Alleging Story Of Parasakthi Movie Was Stolen, Asks Writers Association To Submit Report

Justice SM Subramaniam has also issued notice to director Sudha Kongara, writer Arjun Nadesan, screenwriter Pugazhendi Mathimaran, Dawn Pictures Private Ltd production company, and the South Indian Film Writers Association (SWAN).

“Meanwhile, 5th defendant is directed to examine the complaint filed by the applicant by hearing all the parties and submit a report before this Court on 02.01.2026,” the court said.

The court was hearing a plea filed by K V Rajendran, alleging that he was the first to conceptualise the movie. He submitted that on 1st January 2010, he had registered a script titled “Chemmozhi” with the writers' association, and a registration number was also assigned.

Rajendran submitted that since 2012, he had been meeting people for developing the script into a movie and he had also shared the script with producer Salem Dhanasekaran, who in turn shared it with actor Suriya, who was close to Sudha Kongara.

While so, Rajendran said that in 2023, he came across a news article, announcing a new movie of Suriya, directed by Kongara, with the same storyline as that of Chemmozhi. He submitted that this movie was now titled as Parasakthi and, with Sivakarthikeyan as the lead since Suriya could not continue in the movie.

Rajendran also stated that he had received a call from the son of Dr A Ramasamy, script consultant for the Parasakthi movie, who informed him that though Ramasamy had committed to work with him, they were under pressure to work for Kongara. Rajendran stated that Kongara had offered a remuneration of Rs. 3,00,000 to Ramasamy to use his name as script expert on the condition that his name not be used by anyone else.

Rajendran submitted that in January 2025, he had submitted a complaint along with supporting documents to the Secretary and Treasurer of the Writers' Association, but no action had been taken. Later in March 2025, he was told by the association that since the movie's shooting was ongoing in Srilanka, they could not disturb it and asked Rajendran to come back after the shooting was over. Rajendran also submitted that, though a Story Theft Expert Committee was set up, the committee did not agree to act urgently.

Rajendran thus argued that the makers of the Parasakthi movie had plagiarised/pirated his story and refused to give any recognition. He added that if the movie were allowed to be released, it would not only cause him irreparable loss but would also affect him mentally and his future prospects.

Rajendran had thus sought to restrain the movie makers from displaying their names as the writers of the movie. He also sought Rs. 1,01,00,000/- as the fee payable to him for the story and a further amount of Rs. 25,000/- from the writers' association for their failure to conduct an enquiry. He also sought an interim direction to restrain the release of the movie.