Radikaa Sarathkumar Calls Out Funeral Paparazzi at K Bhagyaraj's Last Rites
Radikaa urged both the government and the film industry to act.
Veteran Tamil director K Bhagyaraj passed away on June 27 in Chennai after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 73. The filmmaker was cremated with full state honours on June 28 at Besant Nagar crematorium. Actors and technicians from across Tamil cinema came to pay their respects.
But the ceremony did not pass without controversy. Actress Radikaa Sarathkumar publicly condemned photographers who zoomed in on grieving family members during the funeral. She shared a video of the confrontation on Instagram. "Funeral paparazzi and grief onlookers should be booked. This is so sad," she wrote.
Radikaa described the filmmaker as a great creator, an evolved writer, and someone who drew wonderful boundaries in cinema. She remembered him as a man who stood by her family in a quiet and loyal way. Her tribute then turned into a sharp critique of what she witnessed at the crematorium. "A place where all needed to digress and mourn in silence turned into a circus," she wrote. She called the behaviour callous and questioned when such attitudes had taken root.
Radikaa urged both the government and the film industry to act. She called for protocols and collective management at public funerals.
