Comedy and character actor Karunakaran was in the news a few months ago when he questioned Thalapathy Vijay "Is Kutty Kadhai only for leaders or also for actors ask your fans to not be abusive nanba Nanby and check if they listen. Plz ask them not to be abusive and hateful #Peace bro. When the Vijay fans started retaliating on Twitter he added "Thamby i will post the certificates of what my dad did for this country as RAW officer also please be informed only reason I started Hating Vijay sir is his abusive fake troll IDS like you and nothing else".

Karunakaran has rendered an apology today "I actually don’t hate any one .I feel sorry I should not have used that word hate @actorvijayAnna one of my favourite he know...I am sorry if I have hurt any one by words on social media... I mean it ...Sorry...".

Many Vijay fans have received Karunakaran's apology tweet positively and are replying to him kindly this time.