Bangalore, Feb 22- Kannada filmmaker Huchcha Venkat is facing police action after he issued an advertisement in local newspapers featuring actress- turned- MP Ramya ( Divya Spandana) threatening to kidnap and marry her.
Though the actress has not approached the police, the latter has taken suo motu cognisance to take action against the filmmaker for defaming her and her family members through the advertisement.
In a newspaper advertisement published on February 14, Venkat announced his latest movie titled Huchcha Venkat ( Mad Venkat).
The Kannada wordings of the advertisement read: ” Ramya, why don’t you understand my feelings? I don’t know whether you will accept my love. Next week, I will abduct you and marry you in Banashankari temple ( Bangalore). I want to see who has the courage to stop me.” The advertisement further said that the movie is being jointly produced by his parents ( Lakshman and Gowramma) and ” my wife” ( Ramya) and ” my mother- in- law Ranjitha” ( Ramya’s mother).
Bangalore City Police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar, who took notice of the advertisement, referred it to the department for legal opinion. The report prepared by the police department observed that it was incorrect on part of the film director to use the names of popular public figures and elected representatives in an advertisement without their consent.
“As the advertisement threatens to abduct and forcibly marry Ramya, it is a cognisable offence. It is intimidating and defamatory,” the legal opinion said.
Ramya, one of the top- most Kannada actresses, has now made a successful transition into politics by joining the Congress, and winning the by- election from the Mandya segment.
The Congress will field her from the same constituency for the Parliamentary polls.
-Indiatoday
