The idea of a woman in the Tamil film industry being pushed past breaking point, and therefore suddenly playing whistleblower, is a compelling one. Everyone believes showbiz is murky, and any scandalous revelations would naturally be lapped up by an eager public. Suchitra's tweets, however, don't seem revelatory enough to match up to the promised exposé. There is much white-hot anger and linguistic incoherence, completely uncharacteristic given her tweets in the past, and while some tweets do indeed level serious charges of the singer being drugged and physically molested by Dhanush and Anirudh, her current insistence that these odd, angry tweets were the result of a hack appears believable.

Dhanush has maintained complete silence so far, while his sister Vimala Geeta, in a Facebook post, has called the allegations an act of "character assassination" and "revenge." The ever-controversial director Ram Gopal Varma jumped in with a tweet a few days ago - "Just spoke to Dhanush regarding #Suchileaks. He laughed like Rajinikanth and said it's just a publicity stunt" - that has since been deleted, but the idea of anyone laughing this off sounds disheartening in itself.