Once this became official, it was obvious that emotional fans would rally behind the project.

Director H. Vinoth repeatedly misled Vijay's fans whenever he was asked if Jana Nayagan was a remake of Balakrishna and Anil Ravipudi's Bhagavanth Kesari. Every single time, he flatly denied it.

Now that the trailer is out, the truth is crystal clear. Going purely by the trailer cut, this looks like a scene by scene remake of the Telugu film, right down to the fight locations. Shockingly, despite rejecting the remake allegations multiple times, the director did not even bother to change the female character's name, Vijji.

The biggest and saddest part is this. A Telugu remake of a very recent Telugu film is now being dubbed back into Telugu and marketed to Telugu audiences, at a time when the Sankranti season is already oversaturated with five releases. The original Bhagavanth Kesari is available for Telugu audiences on Amazon Prime Video, yet they still want to squeeze money out of Telugu people.

This exposes the mindset of certain Telugu producers who treat Telugu audiences like ATMs. Otherwise, why on earth would they bring Jana Nayagan's Telugu dubbing version Jana Nayakudu for Sankranti and aggressively secure theaters for it?

Has any Tamil producer ever done this with their films? Do they even care about Telugu films?