India, Feb. 6 -- Recently, Tamil superstar Rajinikanth won hearts when he met a Chennai sanitation worker, Padma, at his Poes Garden home and gifted her a gold chain. While the moment his team shared online won hearts, director Lenin Bharathi called the star a 'fake philanthropist' for not standing up for workers' rights. (Also Read: Rajinikanth gifts gold chain to Chennai sanitation worker who returned lost gold to rightful owner)

Lenin posted one of the pictures shared by Rajinikanth's team, showing him hugging a happy Padma, dressed in her worker uniform, on X (formerly Twitter). Posting the picture, the filmmaker wrote in Tamil, "Where were you, @rajinikanth, all those times when the sanitation workers were protesting for their right...