It is known that actress Sridevi has issued a legal notice to filmmaker
Ram Gopal Varma with regards to the controversial Sridevi movie poster.
Responding to the notice, RGV has also issued an official press release
and here is what RGV said about the controversial posters.
My response to the legal notice sent to me by Sridevi with regard to my
film "Sridevi" In the legal notice sent to me, there seems to be an
apprehension that the film "Sridevi" is based on a crush I personally
had for Sridevi in my college years ..I,many times over the last 5 years
expressed this publicly in both the media and also to her which was
taken by all concerned in a humorous and healthy spirit.
Now coming to the film "Sridevi",the story is about a teenager's
infatuation towards a 25 year old woman...a subject matter like this was
earlier dealt with,in such films as Malena,Cinema paradiso,Summer of
42,Rajkapoor's Mera Naam joker etc to name just a few...But coming to
the film "Sridevi" neither is the woman playing the title role in my
film is an actress nor the boy is a director..Also there's a huge age
gap between the boy and woman in the film "Sridevi " which is not the
case with me and the real Sridevi
The title has been given to us by the Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber which
is the authorised body for such deeds..moreover films with this same
title "Sridevi "have been made and released atleast 3 times in the last
two decades ...The Film chamber already sent a reply saying that they
are well within their rights to grant the title to us.
The film was earlier titled "Saavitri" but we changed it not for reasons
of the protests as some sections of the media are falsely reporting
..The reason for the change in title is due to a miscommunication on the
production part they went ahead with the title without acquiring it
from the previous right holder of the title...when the previous title
holder refused to give the title we changed it to "Sridevi".After the
producer got the title he went ahead with the printing of standees and
hoardings with the new title..When Mr.Boney kapoor called me I explained
to him both orally and in a msg which I have also given to the press
with regard to clearing the speculations on the so called controversial
content of the subject...
I am deeply hurt by this action of Sridevi whom I always admired and
respected and I strongly believe that she was influenced by others 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 protoganist 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 final outcome of the film will
prove that...
RGV
There is also a section of the industry onlookers who call this entire
episode to be sheer publicity stunt too. "Sridevi" produced by Cosmic
pictures and directed by Kiran Prasad is about a 15 year old boy's
infatuation towards a 25 year old woman
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Monday, 13 October 2014
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