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Ram Gopal Varma, known for making controversial statements, has once again taken a dig at the Telugu film industry. The filmmaker, recently claimed that Tollywood runs on egos of the heroes, burdening the producers and making the buyers cry. He accused a big Telugu star of forcibly running his flop film in the theatre by putting money from his own pocket despite it coming to a deficit.
In a recent interview with Galatta Plus, Ram Gopal Varma claimed that the concept of individual producers doesn’t exist anymore in Bollywood or Hollywood but TFI. He said, “Individual producers don’t exist anymore. Maybe in South, there are a few, but when you look at Bombay, there are no individual producers. In Hollywood, I can’t even recall a name. Individual producers in Bombay make a pre-deal with the corporate.”
“In Telugu industry, individual producers still exist because it runs on heroes’ egos. The heroes don’t like the corporate. Because corporate are employs. They don’t cater to whims and fancies. They only cater to the agreement.”
To back his claim, the Sarkar filmmaker said, “To give you an example, a corporate company from Bombay did a big film with a Telugu star. The film, after a point of time came to deficit, the corporate company wanted to remove it. Now, the star’s fans thought it will be an insult to their star if the film doesn’t run for certain number of days. So, now, the star called the head of the corporate and said, ‘I will use my own money, but you will have to run it for until so and so time’. As long as the hero is spending the money, the corporate has nothing to lose. What went wrong her is this wasn’t communicated to the distributor so the distributors stopped putting ads in the newspapers because that’s an extra cost to bear and he wasn’t paid for it, especially after the film came to a deficit.”
Ram Gopal Varma further claimed that corporate’s professionalism turns off the Telugu heroes. “So, now these corporate companies don’t produce the film, they just acquire it. Right now, what’s happening is that the producers are burdened with massive budgets and they are crying at the end and they can only recover it by selling their films at massive amounts. Later, the buyers cry. All this is happening only in the Telugu film industry. I have never seen this in Bollywood. No buyer sits outside a producer’s house and protests.”
After RGV’s statement, there have been several discussions around who is the filmmaker pointing to.
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