Adurs Releases Amidst Tight Security

KCR's daughter Kavita's attempt to ride on her father's coattails to build her own political career on the double, is smelling its big inauguration party in Adurs, the NTR Junior movie releasing today.

The family that Congress leader and Minister for BC Welfare Mukesh Goud described yesterday as the Raj Thackareys of our state, finds its latest weapon of harmony destruction in the V V Vinayak directed movie. Strong rumours are already rife all over the place that the producers of the film had to pay a lot of money to certain Telangana leaders to allow the already-delayed release to happen. Just as it appeared that the issue was sorted out, Kavita started threats all over again 3-4 days back to block the release of the movie in theatres of the Telangana region.

NTR Junior himself came in front of TV cameras yesterday to state that he was born in Hyderabad, lives in Hyderabad and will die in Hyderabad, pleading emotionally that the film's release be allowed since a lot of investment has gone into it and a lot of lives depend on it.

Kavita however is unmoved. After making politically correct statements to make herself appear objective, by saying she has nothing against NTR as such, she anyway went ahead saying that the Telangana Jagruti Samithi that she heads, the Telangana Students' JAC and several other Telangana bodies will block the release of the movie.

Kavita reason for wanting to block the movie's release is that it is produced by Kodali Nani and Vamsi, who are United Andhra supporters. She scoffs at repeated reasoning that several people of Telangana will lose if the film is not released - exhibitors, distributors, their employees, their vendors etc. - by saying that she's done her research.

She further adds that the producers of the movie will use the money they make from the movie - money paid by Telangana audiences to watch it - to work against the Telangana movement.

What is intriguing, her detractors say, is that she doesn't trust the people of the region to boycott the movie voluntarily. If the sentiment was genuinely in the people, and not in merely KCR's family and in some leaders of the Telangana movement, people would anyway not watch the movie, even if it were released.

A whiff of good news in all this forcible violation of the rights of several people to do business, to perform and to be entertained, is DGP Girish Kumar, who is the only one in the entire state's administration who appears to be showing some spine. He's vowed that the police will ensure that the movie runs without being disrupted by any unruly elements.

For a state that's craving for some real men who can infuse the fear of the law into assorted politicians and goons who are using movements to safeguard or create their political careers at the expense of the image of the state and the rights and property of the common citizen, that is indeed welcome news.

Adurs has indeed released today (it was slated for release a month back), under high police protection for the theatres screening it, and at the time of this article going to FTP, with the exception of Tirumala theatre in Nalgonda that had some protests by TRS agitators who were quickly arrested, things appear to be good for it.