Producer Uppalapati Srinivasa Rao accused Director SS Rajamouli of torturing him and creating personal and professional struggles in his life. He claimed that they both had been close friends since the 1990s.
Srinivasa shot a video and sent it to Mettu police station. In the video, he is heard saying that Rajamouli is responsible for his suicide. He said, “India’s number one director, SS Rajamouli and Rama Rajamouli, are the reason for my suicide. You might think I am doing this for publicity, but this is my final letter. Everyone from MM Keeravaani to Chandrasekhar Yeleti and Hanu Raghavapudi knows how close I have been to Rajamouli for years now. I never thought a woman could come between us.”
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Srinivasa claimed that Rajamouli and he have a ‘triangle love story’ with a woman, just like in Sukumar’s film Arya 2, in the video. “He asked me to sacrifice my love for her, and while I didn’t agree at first, I did later on. He believed I’d told people about this, and he began torturing me after we got into an argument. We worked together till Yamadonga (2007), but he ruined my life after that. He tortured me so much since he became a big shot. I am 55 years old and have lived a single life,” he said as he asked police to do a lie detector test.
The last movie Rajamouli directed was RRR, released in 2022 and starring Ram Charan and Jr. NTR. In addition, Jr. NTR starred in the 2007 movie Yamadonga. Together with Mahesh Babu, the director is presently working on an action-adventure movie. Priyanka Chopra is also reported to play the lead in the movie.