HYDERABAD: With questioning of
Tollywood
personalities having begun in the
drugs case
on Wednesday, the Telugu film industry is on tenterhooks as to where this would lead.
Producer
Natti Kumar said that the police should book them under Preventive Detention Act and arrest them. He said the film chamber should also impose a life time ban on them. “Only if such measures are taken, a strong signal will be sent that such activities will not be tolerated by the film industry,“ he added.
Kumar told TOI it would be in the interest of the film industry to weed out drug addicts. He also said that in the past there have been instances of Tollywood getting involved with drugs but this time it has come like a 'bomb which has been dropped'. Several people related to the film industry have already expressed their anguish at Tollywood personalities being dragged into the drugs case.
“The reputation of the film industry has been sullied, the film industry has got a bad name,“ veteran actor Kota Srinivas Rao said.
Movie Artistes Association
president
Shivaji Raja said that it has been made clear to everyone in the industry that whoever is being called for questioning should be honest with the officials.
Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyde...
Read MoreSushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
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