A.R. Murgadoss, the super-hit director of Tamil Ghajini was “arrested” while coming out of the house of Sujatha in Mylapore, where he had gone to pay his last respect to the late writer!

The ace director who is now doing the Hindi version of Ghajini with Aamir Khan was arrested by the Salem Police on a complaint filed by Salem Chandrasekhar, the Tamil Ghajini producer. Chandrasekhar had filed a police complaint with the Salem Police saying that Murugadoss had kept him in the dark regarding the making of a Hindi version of Ghajini and he has not been paid his due share of the remake rights.

But the manner in which Murgadoss was surreptitiously bundled into a car by police in mufti, in full glare of heavy traffic, made it look like a “Kollywood film style kidnapping”, according to onlookers.

The Chennai police have confirmed that Murgadoss was “arrested by Salem Police”, and he will be produced in a Magistrate court in Salem later in the day.

But when contacted, sources close to the director say that he was "not arrested" but taken for questioning and later send away. They also say that Murugadoss is right now in his office.