Vijayawada: Director Ramgopal Varma arrived in Vijayawada yesterday to promote his upcoming film ‘Lakshmi’s NTR‘ in the city.
It is to be noted that the film-maker was prevented from entering the city for promoting his movie on 28 April by the Naidu government. “… Am landing in Vijaywada at 1 pm on spice jet from Mumbai .. I hope @ysjagan police will treat us with better respect than the @ncbn Police.”
Speaking to reporters, RGV said, “… The movie is set to release on May 31. The incidents in the movie are 25-years-old, but the characters are still in politics and among people. Truth can be suppressed, but its coming out is inevitable.”
The movie speaks about the events that led to TDP founder and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N T Rama Rao’s dethroning’ in an intra-party coup in August 1995 by his son-in-law Nara Chandrababu Naidu. Naidu later become the Chief Minister of the State.
Varma, apparently referring to Naidu’s Telugu Desam party facing a huge defeat in the assembly elections as well as Lok Sabha polls in the State, said the movie is about a person who is seeks votes using NTR’s photos and what he did to him. This person has been punished even before the release of the film.