Famous Tamil comedy actor Vadivelu found himself in the midst of a tweet storm from Wednesday evening after the hashtag #Pray_for_Neasamani started trending on Twitter. Apparently, a Facebook user posted on a page called ‘Civil Engineering Learners’, a picture of a hammer and asked what’s the tool called in other countries. The comments that followed ensured a hilarious turn of events as two Tamil cinema fans came up with witty and sarcastic replies that snowballed into a huge social media sensation and gave rise to several memes.

One of the Facebook users, Vignesh Prabhakar replied that the tool was called ‘Suthiyal’ in Tamil and went on to refer to Vadivelu’s famous character in the 2001 Tamil film Friends, where a hammer falls on the actor’s head making him unconscious. Vadivelu plays a building contractor supervisor. In the film Vadivelu’s character ‘Neasamani’ often becomes a victim to his employees’ antics and misdeeds. Since Prabhakar referred to Neasamani’s character without offering any context many people thought it to be true and started praying for Neasamani and it spawned a lot of memes on Twitter and hashtag #Nesamani has been trending today as well. This is how it all started:

It all started here #Pray_For_Nesamani
Guys what happened to u..
This was just a joke
Our people trend irrelevant things on twitter
Film character ah yenda ipdi trend panreenga
Onnumey illadha vishiyatha yenda ipdi trend panreenga

Kadavuley pic.twitter.com/9i885sXbEI

— Sri Durga (@Sdk_2503) May 29, 2019

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Twitterati had a field day coming up with memes on Neasamani. Check out some of them below:

#Pray_for_Neasamani

Live Update: London doctor Richard Beale came to Chennai Apollo to treat Nesamani. pic.twitter.com/XpWEDIr6ZS

— Mohamed Yaseen (@Mohamed45183646) May 29, 2019

Shri Modiji consoles Thiru OPS who broke down after visiting Nesamani at the hospital. #Pray_for_Neasamani pic.twitter.com/WsWukp7jjl

— Navmi (@navmikrishna) May 29, 2019

Neasamani supporters have signed https://t.co/Ib1HNqhL1C petition to remove suthiyal from Communist party symbol. #Pray_for_Neasamani pic.twitter.com/a5WrEDKzlx

— Shilpa Nair (@NairShilpa1308) May 29, 2019

Anyone asking 'Who is Nesamani' is unnecessarily insulting Tamil emotions. Just shut up and #Pray_for_Neasamani

— Contractor Dharani Thangavelu (@DharaniT) May 29, 2019

. ...! ! #Pray_For_Neasamani pic.twitter.com/zGfVbwwrGM

— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) May 30, 2019

Please stop spreading rumors and just #Pray_for_Nesamani #PrayForNesamani pic.twitter.com/EUWAa8BRZS

— Contractor Prasanna (@madurai_tamilan) May 29, 2019

Praying for neasamani! 1000 lights to be lighted. Waiting for his comeback! #Pray_For_Nesamani pic.twitter.com/W8qD13cKo3

— Deepak Mano (@Deepakmano_) May 30, 2019

#Nesamani #Pray_For_Nesamani Get well soon Neesa, pic.twitter.com/0L7fk9pEuW

— Arun kumar s (@sark07) May 30, 2019

Neasamani killer vedio just now realise #Pray_for_Neasamani pic.twitter.com/piJ6pFvw3n

— Jegadeeesh (@Jegadeeesh1) May 29, 2019

Current update about his health #Nesamani pic.twitter.com/2TiFUht9ju

— Anthoni Adimai Savariyar (@cescanto) May 30, 2019

Best fun Tamil Nadu has ever seen. Happy for all who liked this concept #Pray_for_Neasamani #Nesamani , pic.twitter.com/wH0WJqRTvc

— W.Robin (@wilsonrobin0) May 30, 2019

#nesamani go back soon. #Pray_for_Naesamani pic.twitter.com/nMxNVGZTmV

— Vikash singh (@Vikashk03197792) May 30, 2019

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