Director Venkatesh Maha has found himself embroiled into a controversy again, and this time, it is due to a film made by Prashanth Neel. In fact, the director’s comment got him into so much trouble that he ended up deleting his X account.
Recently, Venkatesh took to his X account and shared a picture of a movie ticket. He mentioned how excited he was to catch Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Dunki’ on the day of its release on December 21. When he shared the post, the trailer for Prabhas’ ‘Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire’ was released. However, he failed to comment on it. Soon, fans of Prabhas lost their cool, assuming that Venkatesh was, yet again, giving shade to Prashanth’s film. Prabhas’ fans even trolled him for supporting a Bollywood film and not a film with the Tollywood star. The fans even lashed out at him for being impartial towards Prashanth.
In the past, Venkatesh was targeted for shading Yash’s ‘KGF’. In an interview with Prema, Venkatesh referred to the film's plot when he said, “In this movie I don’t want to name, I want to meet this utterly selfish woman who advises her son to amass wealth through whichever means. She wants him to rule the world. We celebrate the hero and laud his efforts when he builds narrow cubicles for people who dig up gold for him. He takes all that gold for himself. What are we telling our audience? Why is the audience making these films big hits?”
Before deleting his X account, Venkatesh gave a clarity that he liked Prabhas and would like to work with him some day. He wrote, “Ok guys, calm down. I think you are mistaking a coincidence. I have no other intentions while writing my previous post than sharing my excitement for Dunki. I just found out that the trailer of Salaar got released after your comments.”
He even requested the fans for making assumptions and wrote, “Stop talking without knowing facts, guys. I have been a big fan of Prabhas garu since his first film and I always wished to work with him. There were many instances where I openly said it. I just watched the trailer of Salaar too and it looks amazing. Just don’t create a mess for everything and alter the facts. I told you not to do this just a few days ago, I think it is time for you guys to move on from me.”
