Gunaskehar refutes allegations

Veteran producer M.S.Reddy’s controversial remarks against director Gunashekar have created furor. Soon after Mr.Reddy’s comments were published in the media, director Gunasekhar immediately gave clarification and had refuted allegations made on him. He termed Mr.Reddy’s autobiography as fictional story.

Here is director Gunasekhar’s version.

Generally autobiographies inspire readers but very few unravel their life with truth and integrity. But those who interacted with him/her, would easily find what did they hide and what they lied in the name of ‘ Aatma Katha ‘ (autobiography).

My brother K Ram Gopal produced my second film, Sogasu Choodatarama , and Mr.M.S.Reddy appreciated our effort and promised us to buy the movie but he didn’t keep his promise, which led us in deep trouble to release the movie.

Despite the fact that he didn’t supported us when were in needy, I was thankful to him for the sole reason that he did, in fact, recognized my talent. Out of respect for this gesture, I agreed to make a film with him although I had several offers from other producers after I got appreciation for Sogasu Choodatarama . I came up with a unique and nearly impossible idea of making Ramayanam with child artistes, when he agreed to produce, I did finish the movie, taking mere meager monthly salary for my work. The film starring Master N.T.Ramarao won the prestigious National Award.

Being ever thankful to him, I agreed to do a movie titled Okkadu with him again. As I was preparing for the Okkadu , Mrigaraju released and flopped miserably. Seeing the result of Mrigaraju , he went to hero Mahesh Babu and said that he could not risk of erecting lavish set of Charminar and instead asked him to change the director (meaning to remove me). These consequences led me to go with producer M.S.Raju. I am always thankful to producer M S Raju and hero Mahesh Babu for supporting me irrespective of successes and failures.

Later, both NTR (Jr) and I have agreed upon for doing a film for M.S.Reddy, yet it didn’t materialize and reasons for it are known only to Mr.Reddy’s antaratma.

I can expose these truths in my autobiography but in the name of autobiography, I don’t want to harass the readers. Thus I am explaining here. And moreover, Mr.Reddy did only say that it was his ‘story’, but didn’t term it as ‘autobiography’, nor did he say he wrote with his conscience. So we should not give much thought to these ‘fictional stories.”(telugucinema)