Just how the Kollywood film fraternity had stood together in support of the makers of Mersal last year, high-profile stars from the Tamil film industry such as Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Vishal also batted for Sarkar and strongly condemned the demands of the party supporters, some of whom even engaged in violence.

Tamil Nadu Information and Broadcasting Minister Kadambur Raju was the first official from the state government to express his displeasure with a few scenes from Sarkar and sought their removal from the film. Now, Tamil Nadu Law Minister CV Shanmugam, Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar, North Madurai MLA VV Rajan Chellappa, AMMK Founder, and RK Nagar MLA TTV Dhinakaran also joined forces and lashed out at AR Murugadoss, Vijay and Sun Pictures, the film production arm of Sun Network group owned by Kalanidhi Maran, grand nephew of late former TN Chief Minister and DMK Supremo M Karunanidhi.

The controversial scene in question features AR Murugadoss in a special cameo appearance, throwing away the freebies distributed by the state government into fire during the song 'Oru Viral Puratchi'. Since the free distribution welfare scheme of mixers, grinders, and fans was launched by late former TN Chief Minister J Jayalalitha in her 2011 election manifesto, the party ministers have pointed out that the scene is directly insulting the state government and attempts to malign the image of their leader. The cadres have also taken umbrage at the portrayal of Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, whose character is named Komalavalli, the real name of Jayalalitha before she forayed into politics.

On Thursday, scores of AIADMK supporters staged a protest in front of theaters screening Sarkar and tore down banners of the film. Chennai's Kasi theatre, which is an epicenter for FDFS (First Day First Show), was also vandalised by party members. Madurai, Coimbatore, and Trichy witnessed sporadic protests in several theatre complexes. it led to exhibitors cancelling the matinee shows of the film in specific areas.

After the scale of protests gradually set in motion a series of unwarranted actions from party workers, the makers finally gave in and agreed to remove the objectionable scenes from the film. Popular distributor Tiruppur Subramaniam confirmed saying, "The team has given their consent to remove a few scenes and mute the controversial dialogues which have caused distress to ADMK supporters. They are currently awaiting the clearance of the censor board, and the updated content is most likely to play in theaters from tomorrow (November 9) noon show."

However, all hell broke loose when Sun Pictures sent out a shocking tweet last night stating:

BREAKING NEWS : Police reach Director A.R.Murugadoss residence to arrest him.

— Sun Pictures (@sunpictures) November 8, 2018

At 11:53 PM, Murugadoss took to his Twitter page and again confirmed that police arrived at his doorstep and "banged the door several times".

Police had come to my house late tonight and banged the door several times.Since I was not there they left the premises. Right now I was told there is no police outside my house.

— A.R.Murugadoss (@ARMurugadoss) November 8, 2018