Three things that caught the wild attention of Telugu film lovers in the recent times are Baahubali, Srimanthudu and a video by a Telugu girl on Facebook page. If response of audiences is amazing for the first two, the last one got some showers of flowers and also brickbats equally.
What made everyone revisit the facebook video posted by an NRI Telugu girl is the retort given by anchors like Ravi, Syamala and Karuna. ‘If you have talent, come here and prove but don’t make use of film industry for personal fame. Names like Rajamouli and Ali are legends, don’t dare to touch them’ said Ravi.
Anchor Syamala opined that, ‘Cinema should be seen as cinema. We all know Ali garu quite well off screen, so you need not tell about it. Another actress and show-host Karuna too vehemently asked the girl to refrain making such videos. Were these fierce reactions from our anchors fraternity justified?
It’s for people like that Telugu girl, all this glamorous movie and TV content is made for. So, what’s wrong when they share their opinion? If cinema has to be looked like a cinema, then there’s no need to ban porn films too. Also if Ali’s ‘benz circle’ comment on Samantha in public is taken in lighter vein, why not a lady journalist’s eye-candy remark on a beautiful bureaucrat?
Probably it’s now how our dignified TV anchors should respond at that Telugu girl’s video. Because she asked, ‘We (our epics) can’t allow Draupadi to be stripped off saree and that led to Mahabharata war. Then how come Avantika (Tamanna in Baahubali) forced to strip?’. If anyone has logics to answer her, then it’s better to talk those logics than asking the NRI girl to shut shop.