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Film-maker Ram Gopal Varma is not only famous for his films (good and bad) but also for his controversial tweets. He has again managed to draw flak on social media for his posts on the map of Andhra Pradesh, which has drawn a lot of attention online after a Reddit post went viral. He posted pictures of goddess Saraswati and superimposed AP’s map on her veena. The picture didn’t go down well with many on the Internet, who found it offensive.
Varma tweeted the picture not once but twice with different captions. He was probably being sarcastic, when he wrote, “Am so happy with the Great Goddess’s blessing ..Lucky Andhra Pradesh.” In another post, he wrote with the picture, he wrote, “Never saw her so happy with even Veena in hand than how she seems to feel with AP gun in her hand ..May both the Godess and Gun bless AP”.
Read all his tweets here.
But people slammed him for using photo of Saraswati. A user even asked him if he has no shame for speaking of a Hindu deity thus.
https://twitter.com/manjari__/status/826475673309048832
https://twitter.com/saipavan7072/status/826787893062492160
https://twitter.com/kanna72/status/826505425554178052
Recently, AP’s map, which many on the Internet found to be looking like male genitalia, went viral. The picture was from an event to promote business in the state titled ‘Andhra Pradesh Investment Meet 2017’ that took place in Visakhapatnam. The logo was designed especially for the event but turned out to be rather awkward.
