Tollywood Controversies Of 2019

In the year 2019, more than 10 Telugu celebs or movies including Narasimha Reddy and megastar Chiranjeevi's Sye Raa Rakul Preet Singh made it to headlines for controversial reasons and created a lot of buzz in the media.

Rakul Preet Singh's short dress photo

In January, Rakul Preet Singh tweeted some photos of her roaming around in Mumbai wearing a short dress. In reply, one of her followers teased her by tweeting, "When she forgets to wear her pants after the session in the car [sic]."

The actress lost her temper and replied to him in the same rude way. She wrote, "I think your mother does a lot of sessions in the car so you are an expert!!" After that, the actress was trolled for abusing her fan's mother.

Manikarnika directorial credit

After the release of Manikarnika, director Krish had claimed that Kangana Ranaut had forced him to walk out of the film and turned his golden work into silver. He also expressed his anger at her claim that she directed 70% of the film. It became a never-ending controversy.

Valmiki title controversy

Tej's Valmiki got into controversy even before they kick-started its shoot, as National Valmiki JAC threatened them to change the title. Just a day before its release, the court ordered the producers to change the movie’s title. Henceforth, the makers changed its title to Gaddalakonda Ganesh, which came out as a shock to many celebrities across the Telugu states.

Chiranjeevi's iconic film Gang Leader title controversy

The title of megastar Chiranjeevi's iconic film, Gang Leader, landed in a controversy after Mythri Movie Makers and an unknown production house used it for their upcoming Telugu movie.

Lakshmi's NTR controversy

Ram Gopal Varma was in controversies throughout this year. It started with the making of Lakshmi's NTR, a documentary of NT Rama Rao, based on Lakshmi's controversial book of the same name. It created a lot of buzz over its story, censorship, characters, and release.

Kamma Rajyam Lo Kadapa Reddlu

Again, Ram Gopal Varma was in news for his next political thriller Kamma Rajyam Lo Kadapa Reddlu that features a fictitious story of real-life political leaders like YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, N Chandrababu Naidu, Pawan Kalyan, and KA Paul. The movie faced a hard time at the censor board.

Vishwaksen Naidu using cuss word to his critics

Vishwaksen Naidu courted controversy by using a cuss word to his critics in a video shared on his Instagram account. Nonetheless, he was quick in correcting himself by offering a confession that he did not abuse critics or audiences.

Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy controversy

Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy landed in a controversy when Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy's family members staged a protest against its producer Ram Charan. They claimed that the makers had promised that they will provide some financial help to them before the film took off, but alas that did not happen.

Kalki's story plagiarism controversy

An aspirant writer named Karthikeya alias Prasad had approached Telugu Cine Writers' Association and alleged that Prasanth Varma, from one of his scripts, plagiarized Kalki’s story.

Renu Desai's visit to Kurnool

Renu Desai visited a village in Kurnool and interacted with the farmer's community. Accidentally, her ex-husband and actor-politician Pawan Kalyan was also touring in a nearby village at the same time. The power star's fans started trolling her and abused her for joining hands with a popular Telugu news channel to target Pawan Kalyan.

She clarified that she had visited Kurnool as part of her documentary and mindless people are trying to make a controversy out of nothing.