The row erupted after Allu Aravind posed the question “Who was Yash before KGF?” during a movie press meet. The remark drew sharp backlash from sections of fans and the film industry who saw it as dismissive of the actor’s career before his KGF franchise.
The maverick director took the producer’s side, suggesting the outrage said more about those reacting than about Allu Aravind’s original statement. “It’s only highly egotistic people who will take his statement personally on such a general, well-meaning thought,” Varma said, adding a pointed dig at the producer’s critics, saying that the Hindi audiences didnt know who Prabhas, Rishabh Shetty and Marlon Brando were until thier movies Baahubali, Kantara and Godfather released and became commercially successful and reached a wider audiences.
” The controversy regarding AlluAravind ‘s statement regarding Yash is ridiculously laughable because what he clearly meant when he talked about big films with unknown actors and saying he dint know of Yash before KGF , even a dumbo should understand that it was in context of the below,” RGV wrote on X.
” The Hindi audience didn’t know Prabhas before Bahubali , they didn’t know Rishab before Kantara , I didn’t know Brando before Godfather..Maybe he was a star before in his films A street car named desire , on the water front etc ..I don’t know if they released in india also .. That’s because those films made them big stars and not the other way around ..Hollywood always spends big on concept films and not on stars ..Even directors like Nolan use names only for their acting prowess and not to depend on their stardom ..We all know whether it’s Oppenheimer or Odyssey , they would work as much irrespective of who’s in it. Coming back to the subject of Allu , it’s only highly egotistic people who will take his statement personally on such a general well meaning thought ..Actually this kind of reaction also explains why they are making what they are making.”
The comments, which were made some time ago, surfaced at a time when Yash was in the spotlight with his latest release Toxic,directed by Geetu Mohandas, which was released on August 26 across Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and English sparking online debates among Yash’s fans and now, after RGV’s comments, they have trained their guns on the Sathya film director.
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Meanwhile, the English version of Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups is all set to release in theatres on September 4 in the country. The makers recently announced that the English cut will have a runtime of 2 hours and 57 minutes, indicating that it will be 17 minutes shorter than the Indian-language cut.
