A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking an interim stay on the release of Ramgopal Verma's multi-lingual film Killing Veerappan, based on the operation leading to the killing of the dreaded forest brigand, on the grounds it is full of "false information."

Citing the trailer of the film released recently, petitioner Paneerselvi of a village in Salem district alleged that the "entire movie is filled up with false information which is nothing but creating law and order problems in Tamil Nadu."