We have already reported that Telangana Police Welfare Association has forced senior producer Dil Raju to change the title of Vijay’s today released film from ‘Policeodu’ to ‘Police’.

The Association heads have conducted a media meeting to inform and warn film makers that they will not tolerate if police officers, who command respect and dignity in public, are degraded in the movies. They asked filmmakers not to use objectionable titles, dialogues and scenes in the film.

It was strongly conveyed by the association members that they will not hesitate to take legal action against film stars and producers if the police officers are shown in bad light. They even took the example of Srikanth’s latest film ‘Mental Police’ and said that they will soon move to court against the makers.

Tamil star hero Vijay’s ‘Theri’, which is slated to release in the two Telugu states as ‘Policeodu’, is now experiencing a last minute glitch.

Dil Raju is releasing Policeodu in the two Telugu states tomorrow while the Tamil version has hit screens today. Given the buzz for the film among Telugu audiences, Dil Raju has planned for a massive release across the Telugu states.

He might not have expected that the Telangana Police Officer’s Welfare Association would launch a protest against Policeodu alleging that the film’s title is disrespecting the police department. They have even sent a legal notice to the senior producer. The protesting policemen have demanded the film’s title to be changed.

The policemen’s protests look highly unreasonable since they didn’t have to be silent until the last minute to launch a protest as the title was announced some ten days ago.

With just few hours to go for the release of the film Theri, there is a dilemma for the fans in some areas whether the film releases or not.

This is because of the disputes between the exhibitors and distributors. The exhibitors of Chennai, Chengalpattu along with the single and double theatres managements are stepping back denying the screening of the film. The High Court of Madras recently gave a strong decision on hike of ticket prices and this made exhibitors angry. As a result, they are now showing no interest in exhibiting the film. They wanted the issue to be solved and are expecting the discussions with distributors regarding the already made agreement about the ticket prices.

This is not the first time that Vijay is facing problems before release. In the past, he encountered the same for the films like Thalaiva and Puli. Meanwhile, some of the exhibitors kept a vigilance on theatres who are going over board by selling the tickets for hiked prices. The government also set a telephone line for receiving the complaints from common men on the same. The only fear for exhibitors is that they may fell into losses if they sell tickets without hikes.

On the other side, the multiplexes have started advance bookings but the issues is with single screen theatres alone. Already producers are looking into this aspect and let us hope that the problem gets resolved soon.

YouTube has given a rude shock to Tamil star hero Vijay just like it did to Telugu super star Mahesh Babu a couple of years ago.

The teaser of Vijay’s upcoming film ‘Theri’ was released yesterday and it created sensation on youtube in just few hours. Much to shock of everyone, Youtube has now removed the teaser after its launch owing to copyright violations.

This development took place when the teaser was set to create new records for most number of views and likes for the teaser of a south Indian film on YouTube. Earlier, Ajith’s Vedalam teaser set record with 140K views in just 12 hours whereas Vijay’s Theri teaser managed 120K before being removed by Youtube.

Makers of ‘Theri’ are said to be sorting out the issue with Youtube to restore the teaser as fast as they can.

Few years ago, the teaser of Mahesh’s ‘Nenokkadine’ was also removed by Youtube citing same copyrights violation reason.