For the past two days, a hashtag that has been trending on social media happens to be the Pray for Nesamani hashtag, and the character played by Vadivelu in the Siddique directorial, Vijay, Suriya starrer Friends released in 2001 has become a world famous character now.

It must be noted that Nesamani, a painting contractor gets the contract to paint the palace owned by Radharavi, and when the veteran actor was asked regarding the Nesamani trend, he responded that for the past two days he had been asked regarding Nesamani but he does not know who it is.

Similarly, when politician turned actor Nanjil Sampath, who had acted in LKG and is a part of Nenjamundu Nermaiyundu Odu Raja was questioned on Nesamani and he said that the only Nesamani he knew was Nesamani from Kumari district. He also said that none can replace Vadivelu in Tamil Cinema and he is someone who has stolen the hearts of Tamil people.