Ram Gopal Varma defends Allu Aravind’s ‘Who was Yash before KGF’ remark
Veteran Telugu producer Ram Gopal Varma has defended Allu Aravind's comments regarding Kannada superstar Yash, which have resurfaced on social media due to the underwhelming performance of Yash's latest film, Toxic: A Fairytale for Grownups. Varma argued that Allu Aravind's remark about Yash not being known before his breakout role in KGF: Chapter 1 was in context of big films with unknown actors.
Varma also made a parallel with Hollywood, comparing it to how Marlon Brando was not widely known before his breakthrough in The Godfather. He emphasized that it is the acting talent, not the stardom, that made those films successful. Varma concluded that only egotistic people would take Allu Aravind's statement personally and that the audience is not wrong in their response.
Yash himself later defended the remarks during a promotional event for his film Toxic, stating that cinema does not belong solely to producers and that everyone involved in the industry puts in hard work.
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