Former CM and AIADMK Chief Jayalalaitha's aide VK Saisikala may be in prison serving her four year sentence in the disproportionate assets case but her lawyer is making moves on behalf of her including catching the latest Rajinikanth movie Darbar [which released today and getting offended on a dialogue presumably aimed at her.
While details of the dialogue remain unknown, those who've watched the movie predict that it could be the reference to preferential treatment in prisons which has gotten team Sasikala fuming. In 2017, former Karnataka Prisons DIG Roopa had exposed video footages of Sasikala carrying a shopping bag in a churidar [instead of the prison dress which is a white saree] and had also alleged in an official report that the politico was given access to going out for shopping, separate kitchen amenities, flat-screen TV and unused chambers for meetings.
In Darbar, when Rajinikanth's character tries to report a prison-proxy and other such creature-comfort, a dialogue is said by his colleague who goes, "People end up going to shopping from prison, what's a cell-phone". While this is assumed to have irked Sasikala's camp, her lawyer has stated that failure to remove any dialogue offending Sasikala will end up in action against Rajinikanth and director A.R. Murugadoss.
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//Jan 10, 2020 - Update
#Darbar buckles under political pressure. Darbar team decided to remove dialogues about prison inmates going out for shopping and having proxies in jail to serve prison sentence. This scene received good spontaneous theatrical response and it is now chopped off @ARMurugadoss pic.twitter.com/S5HqADINmP
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