Chennai civic body puts sticker on Kamal Haasan’s Teynampet house, later removes it

TNN | Mar 29, 2020, 09.02 AM IST

CHENNAI: The city corporation was caught in a spot of bother on Saturday after a home-qsuarantined sticker was found pasted on the wall of actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam leader Kamal Haasan's house on Eldams Road in Teynampet.

While fans were anxious, netizens went into a tizzy thinking the actor had been home-quarantined. The sticker showed that the person inside the house was to stay in isolation from March 10-April 6. Later, the sticker was removed and Greater Chennai Corporation r commissioner G Prakash clarified that it was meant for Gauthami Tadimalla, the actor’s former partner. Details of Gauthami's address were given to the civic body by the airport authorities based on her passport. The documents had the Eldams Road address. Civic body sources said Gauthami is quarantined in her house in another part of the city as she came from a foreign country.

Kamal Haasan on Saturday denied reports he was in home quarantine. In a press statement, the actor said, “Most of you already know that I have not been living there (Eldams Road) for the past few years and the Makkal Needhi Maiam office has been functioning from there. So, the news that I have been quarantined is not true,” he said.

Kamal said as a precautionary measure, he too had undertaken social distancing and requested the public to do so. “I would again re-emphasize that all of us undertake social distancing as a precautionary measure,” he added. The actor requested media to verify facts before breaking it so that “fake news” did not get spread.