James Vasanthan apologizes to Ilayaraja fans

Recently maestro Ilayaraja had angrily retorted to a reporter who had inappropriately asked him about the beep song in an occasion for rehab work for Chennai flood relief victims. This had many opinions for and against the maestro and music director James Vasanthan had tweeted against Ilayaraja which had snowballed into a huge controversy. Vasanthan in a statement issued, apologizes to Raja’s fans.

He says, “Dear loving Tamils (music lovers) across the world, The recent developments around my views and comments over Raaja sir's issue has snowballed and has got bigger than ever. I want to put a full stop to all these by saying sorry to his fans who I understand have been hurt by my views.

But, there are few miscreants who are maliciously posting false messages using my name and picture just to make it serious. It started last evening and that's why I had to deactivate my Twitter account. Please don't fall prey to it and believe those concocted stuff. As you all know I speak my mind, but I will be the last one to hurt someone and definitely not the Tamil community on the whole. Let's leave this behind and move forward”.