Following the Mersal controversy over its content criticizing the government taxation and healthcare, a public interest litigation (PIL) was filed by an advocate called Ashvathaman in the High Court. It sought to revoke the censor certificate awarded to the film so that any potential removal of dialogues or scenes can be freely done (As per law, no content of a film that has been certified by the censor board can be removed).

The High Court, in the hearing of the case which occurred today, has dismissed the case after raising important questions about the credibility of the case. It has asked the petitioner why it did not strike him to challenge films which portrayed smoking and drinking scenes, or those that had content demeaning the specially abled, and so on.

The High Court has also implied that there is nothing wrong with the dialogues or scenes in Mersal, and that the revocation of the censor certificate will not happen.