The
film Saavitri / Sridevi is a subject matter of a teenager getting
attracted to an older women which was already dealt with in highly
acclaimed films such as Malena, Cinema Paradiso, Summer Of 42,
Raj Kapoor's Mera Naam Joker, Thoorpu Padamara etc., which won accolades nationally and internationally.
Now
coming to the point that a poster of my upcoming film was released and
some organizations started agitating without any understanding of
it ,I felt a need to clarify things to those misinformed and misguided
organizations And hence I am releasing this press note..
I
came to know some people more than for the poster, are offended by the
content of my first press note. I am once again reiterating that during
my childhood I used to be very much attracted to my teacher
named saraswathi. Recently I have told this to her and she took it with a
smile and that’s because she has the common sense knowledge that in
teenage stages one goes through these kind of attractions which is quite
natural and accepted by psychologists world over .so when she herself
doesn’t have any problem I don’t know why,who doesn’t know anything
about this has a problem and this is the problem for me.
Just
by watching my poster if those people are imagining the story of the
film and taking it for granted that the woman in the poster is a teacher
is highly deplorable. I
clearly mentioned in the press note that my own infatuation on my
teacher is a personal experience and that I did to just draw attention
to the point of the film.
A
few others reportedly got offended by the title “Savitri”and the reason
they say is as per mythology “Savitri” is a chaste. Does this means
they are indirectly saying that women with all other names are
not chaste.I am ashamed to hear such narrow thinking of those
people. The State commission for protection of children's rights also
assumed that the woman in the poster to be a teacher and they sent
a notice to me. I want to clarify once for all that the film is neither
my story nor the woman in the poster a teacher in the film.
The
film is primarily about the ill effects of a boy being subjected to a
fast moving present life styles around us and how it affects him and the
people around him..the content in its finality I am not obligated to
reveal here to people who have no authority to ask me and if at
all there is such objectionable material there’s a government appointed
censor board to deal with it at an appropriate time… so I feel that all
these people are blindly and mindlessly speculating about a non-existent issue in the film in a premature way.and as per the notice sent
to me by the state commission for protection of child rights I
will reply to them in detail on their misinformed allegations against
me. I also want to clarify that the boy in the poster is already an
actor who appeared in films before and in my film he is doing his job
with his parents approval and actually in their presence.
I
am going to move legally against all the people who for the sake of
their own cheap publicity gave my film negative publicity thus affecting
the monies, reputation and the efforts that went into making this movie
because I am deeply hurt by such gross irresponsibility on their part...
RGV.
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