Mersal row: Actor Vijay accused of hurting Hindus; what's the controversy about?

Mersal is a Tamil movie directed by Atlee and co-written by Atlee and Vijayendra Prasad

Vijay starrer 'Mersal' has been in the news for a while now. First there was the row over the use of the title, then there was the one over the regulation of ticket prices and finally, once the movie released, its woes continued with the protest by the doctors, and the latest, by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state unit for its dialogues referring to The Goods and Services Tax and Digital India. However, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, senior party leader P Chidambaram, DMK working president M K Stalin, veteran star Kamal Haasan and a host of Tamil cinema