KS Ramarao had some serious verbal exchanges with a segment of the media and the press during a press meet that he organized to discuss about the success of Vajrotsavam event.
The exchange went to an extent where the producer called behavior of one of the journalist as Rowdy.
To senior politician V Hanumantha Rao’s criticism that film industry didn’t mention former Chief Minister Chenna Reddy name during the celebrations, he said, “we did put up his statue at film chamber of commerce. Is it not enough?”
This all happened during the he sidelines of the press meet of congratulating the committee members for making the event ‘successful’. When senior film journalist Prabhu mentioned why he didn’t give passes to websites (except one website), K S Ramarao became irritated. “Yes, I don’t like websites. They write all gossips and negative items,” he said. Then he termed the senior journalist’s behavior as ‘rowdy act’.
Talking about the event, he said 'We are glad that we were successful in coordinating such a huge event in such an extraordinary way. However, there were a few unfortunate things that happened and I take full responsibility for it. I invited most of the industry myself. Somehow I missed on few people including VV Vinayak and EVV. I apologize to them. We personally invited Sobhan Babu to attend this function. But he said that he has been away from the industry for years and the moment he comes to Hyderabad, he might get temped to act in films. He politely refused our invitation. But some newspaper reported that we did not invite Sobhan Babu. There is an article in famous newspapers that we should not call this function as diamond jubilee and it is celebrated after 60 years. We are enclosing a copy of oxford dictionary which says that diamond jubilee term is used for both 60 years and 75 years.
Even a few things that were minor are blown out of proportion by the press. Even though this event was organized for the film industry, we did our best to accomodate the press too'.
Also, KS Ramarao confirmed that if NTR Award is not given out by the Govt in September, the industry is ready to it themselves.
Later he handed out shields to D Suresh babu, Relangi Narasimha Rao, Sarat Marar, C Kalyan, TVD Prasad, Ramprasad, Vallabha, Ashok Kumar etc.
Source : TTollywood
