“This happened last week -- around the 24th --  at Kovalam... When the shoot was on (for Chekka Chivantha Vaanam), the surfers were asked to go elsewhere. When they came back, they saw that there was a whole lot of glass on the beach. There were also broken bottles and an abandoned windshield. They found some empty cartridges and other blanks that had been fired..."

“They (team Thalapathy 62) had a huge set, erected on nearly half an acre of land. We told them since it is a 10-day shoot, there will be a lot of trash and they will have to clean it up. They agreed. They took five days to dismantle the set after the shoot. But they took back only what they could reuse. They left behind a lot of trash. Parts of a wooden ship was abandoned by the crew. We had to reel it in and dispose it,"

"Kovalam was cleaned up after our shoot. We had about 20 men cleaning up the place of our trash after we packed up...Once we cleaned up our trash and left, we can't be blamed for the pre-existing condition of the place; the fact that the place was littered with trash and broken glass anyway before our shoot is not our responsibility,"