Indian star on sticky wicket over Sri Lanka legend's biopic | Malay Mail

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CHENNAI, Oct 18 — A Indian film star is at the centre of a political storm after agreeing to play the lead in a biopic of Sri Lanka's legendary cricket spinner and national hero Muttiah Muralitharan. Vijay Sethupathi is under pressure in his southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu not to accept the...

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Tamil politicians in India accuse Muralitharan, who retired from Test cricket in 2010, of betraying fellow Tamils in his country during a civil war that ended in 2009. MDMK leader Vaiko, a member of India's upper house in parliament, called the Sri Lankan spin wizard a “betrayer of the Tamil race,” the Press Trust of India news agency reported Friday.

 

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