Mersal Magician Raman Sharma details about his payment fight with Sri Thenandal Films Tamil Movie, Music Reviews and News

Mersal Magician Raman Sharma details about his payment fight with Sri Thenandal Films

PUBLISHED DATE : 20/Dec/2018

Mersal Magician Raman Sharma details about his payment fight with Sri Thenandal Films

For 2 months now, Canada based magician Raman Sharma has been fighting a very public and one-sided war with Sri Thenandal Films over the non-payment of his remuneration from Vijay starrer Mersal. He has posted screen-shots and video recordings of his conversation with the producers and production managers at Sri Thenandal Films, with no reaction whatsoever from the production side.

Now, in a detailed account, Raman Sharma has opened up in a video confession to a leading daily recounting what and how it went down. Excerpts from his strongly-worded video account:

I worked on Mersal for 5 months. The remuneration for my services were Rs. 4 lakh and 32 thousand rupees and I was paid Rs. 1 lakh in advance, which was paid in cash.

I don't know why I haven't been paid (in full) because the other two magicians Danny and Gogo who worked for 8 days were paid. And I was friends with everyone too including Hema (Rukmani) and Murali.

I met Vijay and his family in September in Toronto but I haven't even mentioned this to him nor do I want to. This is between me and the production company..No, Vijay hasn't paid me nor would I accept anything from him.

H. Murali (production manager at TSL) - he threatened me saying that if I didn't take my tweet down I wouldn't get paid anything. Originally when I went to twitter they (Sri Thenandal Films) called me and said, " Take your tweet down and we'll pay you Rs. 2 Lakh" (which Raman Sharma refutes demanding the full balance to be paid).

H. Murali and Hema - those two have just been horrible through this whole thing. They are ignoring everything, they've blocked me. The same people who are making movies about anti-corruption are corrupt themselves. Hema is just a diva..She doesn't care, no sense of responsibility. You want your name on the movie and get all the attention it brings but you don't want to pay your workers. I mean have some self-respect..