‘Mithai’ director Prashant Kumar blasts Rajamouli for ‘Parasite’; criticises him for plagiarism

In a recent interaction with a TV channel, acclaimed director SS Rajamouli expressed his views on the Academy Award-winning film Parasite by admitting that he slept through the first half of the film, before turning it off without finishing. “Parasite didn’t work much for me. I felt the film was a little slow in the beginning. We started watching the film a little bit late around 10 PM, and so halfway through, I dozed off and slept,” he said.
Rajamouli’s comment on the South Korean dark-comedy triggered angry reactions from a section of netizens who took to social media and blasted the ace filmmaker. Meanwhile, the first celebrity to join this bandwagon is ‘Mithai’ director Prashant Kumar.
In an open letter to the ‘Baahubali’ director, Prashant Kumar lashed out at the former by accusing him of plagiarism and insisted that ‘Originality deserves respect.’ Sharing the open letter on his Twitter handle, he captioned the post “S.S Rajmauli slept off while watching Parasite & found it boring and slept off More than anything, Parasite is an original piece of work. Originality deserves respect, especially when it is powerful enough to cut across language barriers and Parasite has done that, my open letter.”
Directed by Bong Joon Ho, Parasite is the first non-English film to bag the Best Film Award in the history of Oscars. Portraying the gap between rich and poor in modern Seoul, the film won a total of four Oscars, including best director and screenplay for Bong Joon Ho and best international feature.
On the work front, Rajamouli is occupied with his upcoming film RRR (Roudram Ranam Rudhiram). Set against the pre-independence era of the 1920s, the film is a fictitious story based on two legendary freedom fighters, Alluri Seetharamaraju and Komaram Bheem. While Ram Charan is playing the former, Junior NTR will be seen as the latter. Besides Alia Bhatt, Ajay Devgn and Samuthirakani, the 400 crore budgeted project features several foreign actors like Olivia Morris, Alison Doody and Ray Stevenson in pivotal roles.