Shahabuddin Razvi claimed that Joseph Vijay invited alcoholics and gamblers to Iftar, which he deemed illicit and sinful from an Islamic perspective. The Sunni cleric went on to to advise Tamil Nadu Muslims against trusting Vijay as he said that the latter is using Muslims for climbing the political ladder while in his movies he presents Muslims as terrorists.
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court stayed an order passed by a single-judge bench of Justice SM Subramaniam after Vijay'c counsel submitted that the actor is ready to pay the dues but the remarks against him should be expunged.