At a time when everybody is of the view that the Telangana movement has subsided and the Telugu film industry is breathing it easy, it seems to have started all over again.
The pro-Telangana activists have once again started targeting the Telugu film industry, dominated by Seemandhra people, in their attempt to highlight their demand for separate Telangana state.
On Wednesday, the Telangana activists obstructed the shooting of the film “Daruvu” starring hero Ravi Teja at the RTC Hospital, Tarnaka, closer to Osmania University.
Hundreds of students and Telangana activists assembled at the shooting spot and asked the unit members to leave the place. They ransacked the shooting equipment and furniture and demanded that Ravi Teja raise Jai Telangana slogans. In the melee, Ravi Teja left the spot and the shooting was packed up.
It is for the second time that Ravi Teja had to feel the Telangana heat. A couple of months ago, the Telangana activists stalled the shooting of his film “Nippu” being shot at Saddupalli village of Hayatnagar mandal in Ranga Reddy district on the outskirts of Hyderabad. That time, however, there was no violence and the activists only demanded the hero to raise Jai Telangana slogans. But then, too, Ravi Teja walked out of shooting without obliging their request.
In the past, the Telangana activists obstructed several other shootings. In one of the major incidents, they smashed the car of Mahesh Babu at the shooting of his film “Dookudu” at Anantagiri hills near Vikarabad in Ranga Reddy district. They set on fire a special set erected exclusively for the film and when the shooting crew resisted the attack, they pelted stones at the sets, damaged cameras, lighting equipment and vehicles.
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