fans of actor vijay went on the rampage damaging a police jeep cctv cameras roadside shops and setting barricades on fire at the roundabout on krishnagirichennai national highway in krishnagiri town in the early hours of friday after local theatres refused to screen special shows of the actors diwali release bigil despite the state governments permission to screen the same police arrested 37 people after resorting to lathicharge to disperse the violent mob the film was slotted to be released in three theatres in the town on friday since the state government lifted the ban on special shows fans started to throng the theatres since 10pm on thursday to watch the special show at 4am restless fans demanded the theatre managements to screen the film as early as possible however managements of all the three theatres refused to screen the special show irked over this a mob of violent fans assembled at the roundabout around 230am and damaged flex banners and ransacked roadside shops they also damaged a police jeep and set barricades on fire cctv cameras installed by the police to monitor the diwali shopping crowd were also damaged by the fans krishnagiri sp bandi gangadhar dsp kumar inspector baskar and riot controlling police came to the spot resorted to lathicharge and dispersed the crowd we brought the situation under control in two hours the sp saidcoimbatore west zone ig k periaiah and salem range dig pradeep kumar also visited the town on friday morning we have instructed the sp to deploy more police personnel at the cinema theatres the ig saidwe have arrested 37 people including city student wing organiser of vijay fans club aravindhan 20 and district organiser tamilarasu 25 for damaging public properties the sp said adding that they have also launched a search for a few more members of the club