After rigorous protests before the release and a defamation case after its release, a man now claims that Kaththi's story was stolen from him and that he had written the original story which had been titled as 'Muthakudi'. Gopi, the man claiming to have penned the story has taken the issue to a court in Chennai seeking justice. Here is what he had to say, " After writing the story, I narrated it to the producer cum director Vishwas Sundar who was accompanied by a man named Jagan. After hearing the story, Vishwas told me that he currently is not in a position to bring the story alive on-screen. But, Jagan who expressed his interest in the story said that he will arrange a meeting with producer-director AR Murugadoss who will be able to give life to the story.
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