Ahead of its October 11 release, Rajinikanth's 'Vettaiyan' has landed in a legal soup. On October 3, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court issued a notice in a public interest litigation (PIL) against dialogues in Rajinikanth and Amitabh Bachchan-strarrer. The petitioner, Mr Palanivelu,a retired Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSC) bus conductor has raised legal objection against some of the dialogues in the teaser of the film. In his petition, he claimed that the film's teaser glorified extra-judicial killing by the police, often referred to as ‘encounters’.

Palanivelu further highlighted in the petition that, “Illegal actions of the police, that too the murders committed by them in the name of ‘encounters’, cannot be justified by the dialogue ‘encounter is not only a punishment, but also a preventive action to stop such crimes’.”  He claimed that such dialogues encourgae unconstitutional activities and would shape the audience mind to feel that such encounters are okay.