The core idea of the Me Too campaign is to allow the survivor to speak up, and to listen. This requires a safe space to vent, where support will be unconditional. Sadly, such is not the case in the Tamil Twitterverse.

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Samantha Akkineni, Varalaxmi Saratkumar and Siddharth. That’s about all of the celebrity voices from the Tamil film industry to come out in support of Chinmayi’s tweets against Vairamuthu.

Both Samantha and Siddharth are seen as outsiders in the Tamil film industry, since they both work extensively in Telugu cinema as well.

Of all their tweets, Siddharth alone named Vairamuthu in his tweet and asked for an investigation and action to be taken.

It was only on Sunday, six days after Chinmayi’s tweet, that Vishal, who is now the head of the Film Producer’s Council, expressed his solidarity with the movement.

On these allegations Vairamuthu  added that for the past week he had been in discussions with a legal team, and claimed he had strong evidence ready now. “If you decide to file a case, I am ready to face it. I request people not to judge me now, not to decide if I’m a good person or not, and instead let the courts decide first,” he said.

As a part of the #Metoo movement online, there had been anonymous allegations against Mr. Vairamuthu. Singer Chinmayi had alleged through a series of tweets that she had been asked to ‘cooperate’ with Mr. Vairamuthu by the organisers of an event in Switzerland. These allegations had later been denied by the organiser, Suresh, in a separate video response as well.

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On seeing this video Chinmayi took her twitter account to react. She said “Mr. Vairamuthu should take a lie detector test. Enough said.”

Mr. Vairamuthu should take a lie detector test.
Enough said.

— Chinmayi Sripaada (@Chinmayi) October 14, 2018

She had also shared anonymous allegations made by other women against the national award–winning lyricist, on Twitter.

She experienced equal amount of support and hatred among social media users regarding her #MeToo sharings. So many memes trolled her as well for her numerous allegations against Vairamuthu and other celebrities.

Now a random twitter user trolled Chinmayi by comparing her to Diwlai Crackers. He wrote “A new cracker arrived for Diwali named Chinmayi, It will burst only after 15 years once you lighten” in Tamil.

தீபாவளிக்கு சின்மயி வெடினு ஒன்னு வந்துருக்காம்.. இப்ப பத்தவச்சா பதினஞ்சு வருசத்துக்கு அப்புறம் தான் வெடிக்குமாம்….. @Chinmayi @itisprashanth @vairamuthu @gopivel_s @ijstnpl if u agree retweet this post

— Antony (@raj_antony87) October 17, 2018

He tagged Chinmayi, Vairamuthu in the post where the singer witnessed it and replied to it. She replied “Valcano will turbulent for years but once it erupts there will be a disaster. Shut and go” 

Eri malai pala varsham kondhalichute irukumaam. Aana vedicha sarvanasanam.
Mooditu po

— Chinmayi Sripaada (@Chinmayi) October 17, 2018

Then the user who trolled her replied her in a positive way.

Madam @Chinmayi vetri namakke 🎉🎉🎉… Dont get tensed abt kidding posts.. Take it in a positive way so that only hereafter all will react immediately anyway thanks for spoken up now

— Antony (@raj_antony87) October 17, 2018

Following the conversation Chinmayi seen replying for number of comments. Check out them here :

Engange sarvanasam aagudhu. Innum tweet mattum pottutu Oor side la appatha’s gossips kekkara maari kettuttu irukkenga. Legal edho panreninga adhum pannala! Seri unmaiya irundha dhaana .

— Gowtham laxmanaswamy (@gowthusachien) October 17, 2018

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You don’t know thats all. As i said 😷

— Chinmayi Sripaada (@Chinmayi) October 17, 2018

How cheap u r talking to people ! Make sense. People talking in such way you behaved. Proper evidence kudutha. All will support ! Vechu thanguvanga. Ipdlam pesi Emma proyojanam ?

— Karthik Ramadurai (@KarthikRamdurai) October 17, 2018

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