Over the years A.R. Murugadoss' name has been pulled in some huge plagiarism rows - be it for Ghajini (which was inspired from Mementoand later left Chirstopher Nolan 'upset' that he was neither credited nor mentioned in the Tamil/Hindi versions), or Kaththi (Aramm director Gopi Nainar fought tooth and nail alleging the script was his before the court passed a judgement otherwise). Now, the situation seems to have hit the director yet again, this time for his upcoming political thriller with Vijay - Sarkar.
Post the Sarkar teaser release which went on to break some huge YouTube records, a writer and assistant director by the name Varun Rajendran came forward with a claim that Sarkar's story is a replica of his own script Sengol. Since Varun Rajendran had registered the script with the Writer’s Union in 2007, he had filed a complaint against Murugadoss and the South Indian Film Writers Association is currently investigating the case.
Media reports quote representatives of both parties to have confirmed such a development.
// Update on October 30, 2018 : https://www.moviecrow.com/News/21780/sarkar-story-controversy-varun-rajendran-to-be-credited-in-ar-murugadoss-film