A section of Tollywood filmmakers, namely Venkatesh Maha, Vivek Athreya, Nandini Reddy, and Mohan Krishna Indraganti are now in the firing line for making a series of highly offensive comments on commercial cinema.
Venkatesh Maha stated that KGF 2 has a problematic mother characterization and ridiculed the fact that the film made so much money at the box office despite the crappy content. Other mentioned directors are seen clapping and cheering for these comments.
Just hours after this interview was aired, it created a huge controversy and it's all over the internet now. There's a whole lot of backlash for the same now. In the pretext of the backlash, all these directors have started to issue public apologies.
"Every commercial film which has become a success is bec the audience hs loved something in tht effort . The conversation was nvr meant 2deride anyones work but rathr hv a positive debate on what cn diversify the narrative of “commercial cinema”. Apologies fr any offence caused" Nandini Reddy tweeted.
Vivek Athreya tweeted that he was just reacting to the conversation and it doesn't mean he was cheering while Venkatesh Maha made such comments on other films.
Venkatesh too apologized later and stated that his comments are misinterpreted by a section and he apologized to those who took offense to the same.
