However, director Samy feels differently. For he has opined that his latest release Mirugam, starring Aadhi and Padmapriya, is a lot better than Ameer’s Paruthiveran.

It is well-known that Samy who would go to any length to get his story made and in the case of Mirugam, which deals with the issue of AIDS, he has weaved an interesting story around a village ruffian who contracts the deadly virus. He said that though he admired Paruthiveeran for its honesty, it still thrived on commercial elements like romance but Mirugam had a social message and in that manner harder hitting compared with Ameer’s Paruthiveeran. He even justified the few violent scenes in the movie were a necessity and were in keeping with the behavior of the protagonist. Perhaps, such comments are best left as ‘each one to his own.’