thiruvananthapuram malayalam movie celluloid which won seven state film awards on friday and has been running to packed houses in the state has run into rough weather with several historical bloopers being pointed out in it triggering a debate on the biopic on malayalam cinemas father j c daniel writer n s madhavan through his tweets criticized the herovillain formula in commercial cinema which made the celluloid makers portray the late author and civil servant malayattoor ramakrishnan former chief minister k karunakaran and yesteryear tamil actor p u chinnappa in a bad light apparently to praise the hero movie director kamal had admitted in some of his recent interviews that the cultural secretary and the cm in the movie were malayatoor and karunakaran respectively wish it was kept a period film sore about demonisation of malayattoor who was never the culture secretary of kerala madhavan tweeted in the film culture secretary says cm will not agree karunakaran was not cm then biopic it is he added another person demonised in celluloid was tamil actor pu chinnappa whose acting career ended in mid40s daniel connection doesnt gel madhavan tweeted he also questioned the date of release of vigathakumaran which according to the reference book biography of j c daniel by chelangatt gopalakrishnan was 1928 while the film says it was 1930 madhavan tweeted that the controversy was not intentional but he was hurt because kamal made vayalar to badmouth malayattoor the man really behind vayalar award the film has a scene where sreenivasan who apparently plays the role of chelangatt gopalakrishnan asks vayalar to ring up the culture secretary who was stubborn in denying pension to daniel in facebook discussions fuelled by madhavans tweets many pointed out the lack of research behind the making of the biopic celluloid also faced criticism regarding its similarity to marthi film harishchandrachi factory and on the insensible depiction of dalits kamal did not respond to repeated attempts made by this newspaper to contact him meanwhile congress leader and karunakarans son k muraleedharan alleged that the makers of the movie were trying for publicity with the wrong portrayal