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Cameraman Ganga tho Rambabu (CGR) film stopped in Telangana
The screening of Pawan Kalyan starrer ‘Cameraman Ganga tho Rambabu’ was stopped in many theatres across Telangana on the second day of its release on Friday following protests by Telangana supporters against objectionable scenes which they claimed hurt their sentiments.
The protests took a violent turn when Telangana Rashtra Samiti activists
vandalised the offices of the film director Puri Jagannath and
producer/distributor Dil Raju at Jubilee Hills and Srinagar Colony
respectively here. They smashed the windscreens of four cars parked on
Mr. Jagannath’s office premises, besides damaging furniture at both
their offices.
Mr. Jagannath and Mr. Raju promised to delete the scenes if they were
indeed objectionable, but appealed to the agitators to stop violence.
Mr. Jagannath arranged a special screening for leaders of TRS and
Telangana joint action committee to vouch for the content.
The dialogues of the film’s hero Pawan Kalyan and villain Prakash Raj
was the cause of trouble. The particular scene depicted the villain
throwing a challenge that only sons of the soil would be allowed to do
business in Andhra Pradesh and those from other States would be driven
away.
This argument was rebuffed by the hero asking how was it that the
former’s father could do business in New Delhi while the son pursued
higher studies in the US.
Interpreting the scene as a direct reference to leaders in the forefront
of Telangana movement, the agitators thronged theatres screening the
film since morning on Friday.
Aradhana theatre at Tarnaka which is close to Osmania University campus
was the first to be attacked by the students. The crowd brought the
prints to the campus and burnt them in front of the Arts College
building.
The agitators staged demonstrations at Sriramana and Sandhya talkies at
Amberpet and RTC crossroads respectively. The shows were also suspended
at halls in Medchal, Nacharam, Madhapur, Balanagar, L.B. Nagar,
Karmanghat, Gaddiannaram, Dilsukhnagar and Kothapet.
Mancherial MLA G. Arvind Reddy led a crowd to close down a theatre in
that town. The film was not shown in 12 out of 21 theatres where it was
released across Karimnagar district. A theatre at Paloncha in Khammam
district was also attacked.
The Telangana Film Chamber convened an emergency meeting of its
executive and demanded the film producer to compensate the talkies’
owners for the loss suffered on account of non-screening. Chamber
president M. Vijayender Reddy said the compensation was paid when
‘Saleem’, ‘Arya Two’ and ‘Adurs’ were not screened under similar
circumstances.
The TRS reacted to the developments saying it will not tolerate insult to Telangana movement in the name of a film.
Take BY: The Hindu News
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