Controversy’s favourite child Ram Gopal Varma triggered hornet’s nest after annoucing film Murder based on honour killing in connection to Amrutha-Pranay-Maruthi Rao. He annoucned the same on Father’s Day in a tweet which reads, “This is going to be a heart wrenching story based on the Amrutha and Maruthi Rao saga of the DANGERS of a father LOVING a daughter too much ..Launching the poster of a SAD FATHER’S film on HAPPY FATHER’S DAY #MURDERlove: (sic)
Subsequently, an open statement claimed to be of Amrutha is doing the rounds on social media which states that she wanted to commit suicide upon learning that RGV is making a film on the tragic story happened in her life. Now RGV has issued statement over the open letter doubting its veracity stating that his intention is to make a film based on true event, and vre claimed his flick to be a true story. RGV adds that his intention to lessen their pain by ‘putting their experience in a contextual retrospective’
Checkout RGV’s statement:
I wanted to answer to a widely circulated note on the social media claiming to be written by Amrutha, that she felt like committing suicide after she came to know that I am making a film called MURDER based on her and her father’s story.
Whether Amrutha wrote it or some jobless over enthusiast wrote it, I felt obligated to respond to it to clarify the concerns in the minds of whoever is needlessly concerned about what I will show in MURDER.
Firstly I clearly mentioned in the poster that MURDER is based on a true story and I did not claim it to be the true story.. The news upon which my film is based upon is in the public domain for years and has been acknowledged by the various people involved.
The real photos I used to illustrate my point of MURDER are widely available on the internet and have not been given to me in person or in secret for me to breach someone’s trust.
The real story on which MURDER is based upon might be out there in multiple perspectives but my own perspective of it can only be seen only after the film releases and hence its immature to presume its content.
It is always a perspective as in the view of any journalist who reported it or anyone who investigated it or anyone who speculated about it and I as a film maker while making MURDER have a right to give my own understanding of it.
Its foolish to assume that I am going to show someone involved in a negative light because I strongly believe that nobody is bad and only bad circumstances make people look bad or make them behave bad and that’s what I intend to explore in MURDER.
My final message to writer of the note whether it’s Amrutha or anybody else is I have the highest respect for people who endured a tremendous trauma and my sincerety in MURDER will be to respect that pain and lessen it by putting their experience in a contextual retrospective.
