Former MLA & senior leader of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy demanded the Telugu Film Industry (TFI) producers and director’s associations to ban film director Ram Gopal Varma (RGV) from their body, claiming that having him in the council is a “disgrace to the Telugu film industry,” which has produced number of stalwarts.
Addressing a press conference at TDP office here on Tuesday, Mr. Satyanarayana Murthy said that even if Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy government tries to run RGV’s movie Vyooham in theatres by deploying additional police force, it will be unanimously rejected by people of Andhra Pradesh.
Mr. Satyanarayana Murthy said RGV panicked when a group of TDP supporters staged a protest near his office at Hyderabad. “If RGV makes derogatory statements and spread false propaganda against TDP leaders, our party workers and supporters will tonsure him and make him walk on the road,” Mr. Murthy said. He also said that the only aim of the movie was to portray Jagan Mohan Reddy as a great personality and cover up his crimes.
