Tamil Nadu to Manipur to Malaysia: Vikram’s viral Lar Gibbon video leads forest dept down a long trail | India News
5 min readChennaiUpdated: Aug 13, 2026 04:46 AM IST It began as an affectionate, albeit ill-judged, social-media moment: Actor Vikram playing with a Lar Gibbon, the small ape comfortably clinging to him, fiddling with his hair as the camera rolled. The video appeared on Instagram, travelled rapidly across social media, sparked ‘likes’ and outrage, and…