Actor Karunakaran has been criticizing Thalapathy Vijay and his fans on twitter starting with "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 fans started reacting stating that the comedy actor is from Andhra his reply was "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 also severely trolled Vijay's political entry Hii I will not enter politics to safeguard me will enter when people need some one like me to safeguard them". There has been severe backlash to this by Vijay fans and stating that there has been threats on his life through social media and over phone Karuna reportedly will lodge a complaint against Vijay and his fans with the Chennai Police Commissioner.