Thangalaan' is based on real-life incidents, exploring how the people of kgf saved the mines from the british and found ways to avoid exploitation by the colonisers. The film is set in the 19th century, pre-Independence era
Arjunlal Sundardas from chennai lent the money he received from VIPs to many people.
Since his death, his assets have been administered by a madras High Court-controlled estate, which is taking steps to recover the amount from Arjunlal's borrowers. In that way, Gnanavelraja and Iswaran, the partners of Studio Green film production company, had taken a loan of 10 crore 35 lakh rupees from Arjunlal in 2013.
As the amount was not returned with interest, the property owner filed a case in the madras high court seeking to declare both of them bankrupt.
The bench of judges G. Jayachandran and CV karthikeyan has issued an interim order. , They ordered that one crore rupees should be deposited before the release of the Thangalan film and after that, the film could be released.