Ram Gopal Varma Revealed That He Had A Crush On Sridevi(Photo Credit –Instagram)
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It’s been quite a wild ride in the news cycle. Boney Kapoor has been dominating the headlines, with revelations about Arjun Kapoor, Sridevi, and more. We are reminded of this bizarre incident between filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma and Boney and Sridevi Kapoor. Did you know that Boney Kapoor and Sridevi once sent a legal notice to Ram Gopal Varma over a film he was working on about Sridevi?
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, known for eccentric films, has become a controversial figure in the industry. He has often been surrounded by controversy. Back in 2014, RGV set out to make a movie titled Sridevi. The filmmaker had been a very public admirer of the Chandani actress.
Boney Kapoor was never really okay with Ram Gopal Varma’s public crush, but things worsened when he and Sridevi sent a legal desist notice to the Sarkar director. The uproar began when RGV changed the name of his next Telugu film, Savitri, to Sridevi. The plot revolves around a teenage boy’s obsession with an older woman. RGV has already discussed his “crush” on the actor.
According to reports, Boney Kapoor was worried that people would think the movie was based on Sridevi and didn’t want to make associations between the cinema and Sridevi. RGV responded to the notice, writing, “There seems to be an apprehension that the film Sridevi is based on a crush I had for Sridevi in my college years. Over the last five years, I expressed this publicly in both the media and to her, which was taken by all concerned in a humorous and healthy spirit.”.”
Ram Gopal Varma Revealed That He Had A Crush On Sridevi(Photo Credit –Instagram)
He goes on to clarify that his sentiments for the actor were unrelated to the film’s title. Varma further said that Sridevi’s action deeply hurt him.
He said, “I strongly believe others influenced her with vested interests. I am going ahead with the title Sridevi because I am well within my legal and moral rights to use it..legal because a name cannot be copyrighted, and also like I said, the film has nothing to do with the real Sridevi to the extent that the protagonist is not even an actress…moral because I know in my heart that I will never do anything to degrade or demean Sridevi and the outcome of the film will prove that.”
The 2014 Telegu Movie has never been released, even after so much publicity. And after Sridevi‘s passing in 2018, Ram Gopal Varma even wrote an open letter about her expressing his grief.
