Ram Gopal Varma calls Ram Charan’s Game Changer box office numbers ‘fraud’: ‘Who’s behind this humiliating disgracing insult?’ 

If @ssrajamouli and @SukumarWritings sky rocketed telugu cinema in real time collections into a fantastically stratospheric heights thereby sending legitimate shock waves into Bollywood, the people behind G C succeeded in proving that the south is much more FANTASTIC in being a…

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) January 13, 2025

Varma questioned the box office collections of the film and added, “I truly don’t know who’s behind this highly humiliating disgracing insult of undermining the extraordinary achievements of south thanks to Baahubali, RRR, KGF 2, Kantara etc and all of their achievements will be now in doubt because of G C claims.”

The filmmaker absolved Game Changer producer Dil Raju but wondered who was behind the ‘lies’. He wrote, “I don’t know who’s behind these unbelievably naive lies, but for sure it can’t be producer Dil Raju because he is a truly grounded realist and he’s incapable of the fraud that is being committed.”

If G C costed some 450 cr then RRR in its extraordinary never before seen visual appeal should have costed 4500 cr and if G C film’s first day collections are 186 cr on day 1 , then PUSHPA 2 collections should have been 1,860 cr ..The point is that the fundamental requirement of…

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) January 13, 2025

The discrepancies in Game Changer’s box office numbers have raised eyebrows. The film’s producers claimed that it earned Rs 186 crore on day one of its release, January 10. However, trade sources reported that the film opened under Rs 100 crore worldwide, with some sources like industry tracking website Sacnilk reporting a collection of only Rs 80 crore.

Addressing the allegedly inflated box office collections of Game Changer, Ram Gopal Varma also raised doubts about the film’s reported budget and wrote in a separate tweet: “If G C costed some 450 cr then RRR in its extraordinary never before seen visual appeal should have costed 4500 cr and if G C film’s first day collections are 186 cr on day 1 , then PUSHPA 2 collections should have been 1,860 cr ..The point is that the fundamental requirement of TRUTH is that it should sound BELIEVABLE and in the context of G C a LIE should sound even more BELIEVABLE.”

Directed by Shankar, Game Changer stars Ram Charan, Kiara Advani, and SJ Suryah. The political thriller took a strong start at the domestic box office but has tapered off since then, falling hard on Monday. It is yet to reach Rs 100 crore domestic net after four days of release. Its four day total net collection stands at Rs 97 crore and gross total stands at Rs 105.7 crore. This is Ram’s first film as a solo hero in 6 years.