Noted director S.S. Rajamouli is in trouble after the Rashtriya Vanara Sena complained about him at the Saroornagar Police Station. The group said that the director made rude comments about Lord Hanuman at the presentation ceremony for the title of his new movie, Varanasi.
The complaint says that Rajamouli's statements harmed the feelings of Hindus. The group is worried about how casually Hindu gods are being talked about in the film industry. They told the police to file a report and start an investigation, and they asked for stringent measures to keep things like this from happening again. But the police have not yet done anything about the complaint.
After a rough night for Team Varanasi at the GlobeTrotter event in Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad, the controversy began. Even though there was a lot of planning and excitement, technological problems kept getting in the way of showing the first look at the movie, which made Rajamouli very emotional.
The director apologized to thousands of fans, many of whom had traveled in from all over the world. Rajamouli remarked in Telugu that he was upset about what his father, writer Vijayendra Prasad, had said earlier about how Lord Hanuman's blessings were guiding the crew.
He said honestly, "I don't have a lot of faith in God." My dad claimed Hanuman would show us the way. I got upset when the problems started. Is this how He helps me? The director stopped in the middle of his lecture to get his thoughts together. Rajamouli also talked about how devoted his wife Rama is to Lord Hanuman, saying that she talks to the god like a close friend.
"Let's see if my wife's Hanuman helps us this time," he said in a voice that showed he was feeling weak. Later that night, before trying to play the movie's preview again, he said, "If my father's Hanuman saved us once, let's see if my wife's Hanuman can do it again." The event has caused a lot of heated debate on social media, with fans praising the filmmaker's emotional reaction and detractors calling for accountability. Authorities have not yet responded to the complaint.
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