Tweets praising Kanupapa were not by Ram Gopal Varma

Controversy’s favourite kid Ram Gopal Varma is in the news once again, but this time for no fault of his. RGV is someone known for not mincing his words. Most of his tweets have faced the ire of the twiterattis. In the past, he has taken a dig at many leading superstars including Rajinikanth, Mammootty, Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan etc.

RGV shares a great admiration for Malayalam superstar Mohanlal. He has roped in Mohanlal to play prominent roles in two of his Hindi movies, Company and Aag.

Recently, Mohanlal’s blockbuster movie Oppam was dubbed and released in Telugu as Kanupapa. Many media groups reported about RGV’s tweet praising Kanupapa and Mohanlal’s performance. Lavishing praise on Mohanlal, he mentioned that other stars should stop doing the routine acts and follow Mohanlal. The tweets read,

“What some stars could not achieve in Tollywood, MohanLal Garu did that with just 3 movies. #Kanupapa is a brilliant movie, must watch.

Atlas after watching #Kanupapa all the big Stars & Directors should stop doing same old routine formula movies. My Sincere to MohanLal”

These tweets were trending virally
in social medias and was even used for promoting the movie.But the reality is that these tweets were not from RGV but from his parody account. The director himself cleared airs about these tweets. His original twitter account was RGVzoomined while his parody was RGVzoomin. Interestingly, the veteran filmmaker had praised the original version, Oppam, during it’s trailer release

Kanupapa was released on February 3 to good response from the Telugu audience. The movie was opened to positive reviews from the critics who praised Mohanlal’s performance and Priyadarshan’s skilled direction. Malayalam version of the movie, Oppam was a huge success both critically and commercially.

The movie is a crime thriller revolving around a blind man who is on the run to protect a girl from a serial killer. Mohanlal played the blind man’s role while Tamil actor Samuthirakani played the antagonist. Oppam is currently the second highest grossing Malayalam movie ever.