The announcement of
Ram Gopal Varma’s next has been shrouded in controversy right from its announcement.
RGV took to his social media to announce the film titled Power Star. Sharing a video, he wrote, “Here is the STAR of my new film POWER STAR... This shot was taken when he visited my office .Any resemblance to any other person is incidentally coincidental and intentionally unintentional..” (sic) This sparked an outrage among fans as it was obvious whom the director was targeting his jibes at.
Some industry folk too called him out for this. Actress Poonam Kaur was vocal about her outrage on social media as she called out RGV. RGV’s tweet announcing the film read, “BREAKING NEWS: My next film on RGVWORLDTHEATRE is titled POWER STAR ..it will be starring P K, M S , N B , T S, a Russian woman , four children , 8 buffaloes and R G V ..No prizes will be given for understanding who the characters are
#RGV’sPOWERSTAR” (sic)
Poonam replied to this tweet saying, “Plz include a character named
#rgv who calls girls finding out their emotional weakness n instigates them to use abusive language and sends tweets to them to share as if they are doing it n then informs media about it ...I respected U when I was a child ...feel sad about u now” (sic) She went on to post another tweet that read, “Plz include a character named
#rgv who calls girls finding out their emotional weakness n instigates them to use abusive language and sends tweets to them to share as if they are doing it n then informs media about it ...I respected U when I was a child ...feel sad about u now” (sic)
RGV is yet to respond to this criticism.