Chennai: Muthulakshmi, the widow of slain forest brigand Veerappan, today made an emotional appeal to PMK-affiliated Tamil satellite channel Makkal TV not to telecast a serial made on the life of her husband, saying it would cause pyschological trauma to her two teenaged daughters.

"After going through a harrowing time, my daughters have just settled down in their schools. If the serial depicts their father as a bad character, they will become an object of ridicule before their classmates and it will cause mental trauma to them," she told reporters here with tears welling up in her eyes.

While Muthulakshmi resides near Mettur in Salem District, her daughters are studying in 11th and 10th standards in a city school. Elephant poacher-turned sandalwood smuggler Veerappan was shot dead by the Tamil Nadu police in an encounter in 2004.

The dreaded brigand's widow, who failed in her attempt to stall the telecast of the 125-episode serial titled "Santhanakadu (sandalwood forest) after a city civil court vacated a stay on the telecast, said she would file an appeal before the Madras High Court this week.

Serial Director V Gowthaman, who had earlier made a tele-film on serial killer Auto Shankar for the Makkal TV, had said that he would be forthright in depicting the crimes of the sandalwood smuggler and also the police force formed to track him. Interestingly, both Auto Shankar and Veerappan belonged to the Vanniyar community, the main vote base of the PMK.