sometimes a misplaced trust may kill you people should think twice before taking it for a ride the last thing you want to see is your passion getting butchered from all the directions for a mistake you did not commit threshold this ambiguous tweet by karthick naren the director of dhuruvangal pathinaaru on monday evening has stirred up a controversy in tinsel town on tuesday night the tweet had a reply of sorts from gautham vasudev menon who is coproducing the youngsters upcoming film naragasooran while some young filmmakers whine about their passion getting butchered instead of growing a pair heres a young team that makes an interesting short about girls women cricket csk and liberation he tweeted to which there was a retort from karthick while everybody advised against it i had the pair to trust you collaborate sir in return we were treated like trash made to invest on our own i think its better to whine confront instead of running away please dont do this to any other young filmmaker sir it hurtsthese tweets made it very clear that all was not well between the two filmmakers so what went wrong reveals a source close to karthick in february 2017 gautham had reached out to karthick and volunteered to coproduce his next film he had paid a token advance of 5 lakh to him but once the production started it was karthick who was spending all the money later gautham brought badri kasturi as a coproducer telling karthick that the latter would handle the production and badri spent almost half of the films budget and somehow they managed to finish the shoot in 41 days but many of the artistes werent paid in full and gautham who was supposed to take care of this as the films other producer did not respond and karthick and badri learnt that gautham had used this film as a collateral to generate finance for his other directorial efforts enai noki paayum thota and dhuruva natchathiram only after repeated attempts to reach gautham did a disheartened karthick decide to tweet to gain the attention of the senior directorwe tried to reach karthick for his version of this developing story but he remained unavailable meanwhile quoting the tweets by karthick naren siddharth rao a coproducer of selvaraghavans nenjam marappadhillai in which gautham is a coproducer also alleged that the director was the reason behind why his film hasnt released yetreacting to the controversy gautham says really nothing more to say karthick said something and i tweeted he said something else too and i really dont want to add to that or take it away from him let him have the last word i understand the angst of a filmmaker however his angst comes at a time when things are being sorted out and as soon as the strike and release plans of films are cleared we will release naragasooran too nothing more we are all working to release our films