Teaser of Ram Gopal Varma’s Murder released

After stirring controversy with Powerstar, Ram Gopal Varma is back with a film titled Murder.

The movie is based on an honour killing in

Miryalaguda

of Telangana that shook the nation in 2018.

Maruthi Rao

had allegedly hired goons to kill Pranay, the Dalit man who was married to his daughter, Amrutha. Pranay was murdered in September 2018. Ram Gopal Varma had stirred up controversy when he had announced that he would be making a film on this case. Pranay’s father, Bala Swamy had filed a case against Ram Gopal Varma for cashing on his son’s death. Speaking to

Hyderabad Times

, he had said, “Amrutha is still trying to move on from that brutal incident and it is not fair for him to use my son’s death to make a movie. Already there were many people on social media who send casual abuses to Amrutha for marrying my son and this movie ‘Murder’ has once again instigated all those people to slut-shame Amrutha.” Controversy has been following the film since its inception and the trailer was finally released today.

Directed and written by Anand Chandra, Ram Gopal Varma is presenting the film. Ram Gopal Varma has experience in making movies from real life incidents and this is evident in the teaser of this film as well.. introducing the characters, he wrote, “The actress playing the daughter in MURDER is @AvanchaSahithi who in spite of being so young has given a remarkably complex and nuanced performance. The powerhouse actor Srikanth Iyengar playing the father in MURDER is undoubtedly the best actor I have seen in years...U will be blown with him in Coronavirus and Murder. The actress #GayatriBhargavi playing the mother in MURDER is none other than the granddaughter of legendary director Bapu garu.” (sic)