Vijay Sethupathi's witty response to reporter goes viral, here's what he said...

Actor Vijay Sethupathi firmly rejected a controversial question about the Tamil language while promoting his new film “Merry Christmas” at a press conference in Chennai last weekend.

Sethupathi stars alongside Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif in the upcoming bilingual thriller directed by Sriram Raghavan. The duo were fielding questions at an event on January 7, ahead of the film’s January 12 release.

When one reporter asserted that “Tamil Nadu’s politics for 75 years has been to oppose Hindi,” Sethupathi interjected decisively.

“Hindi as a language was never opposed,” he stated. “We are against the imposition of Hindi. There’s a difference between the two.”

The actor referenced a previous occasion when the same journalist had posed a similar question to Bollywood star Aamir Khan.

“Why are you asking this again and again?” he asked pointedly. “No one is stopping anyone from learning Hindi. People are learning it here, and no one is against that.”

Sethupathi reiterated that the backlash in Tamil Nadu has always been specifically against the compulsory teaching of Hindi in schools, not the language itself.

Sethupathi stars in “Merry Christmas” alongside Katrina Kaif, marking one of his first major roles in a Hindi film. The Sriram Raghavan thriller will release in cinemas on January 12th in both Tamil and Hindi languages.