Ram Gopal Varma takes another Twitter dig at Rajinikanth; move backfires

Director Ram Gopal Varma is back to doing what he does best – creating controversies. Proving it to be his favourite hobby, he has again targeted Rajinikanth on Twitter.

On Tuesday Varma took to Twitter to congratulate Kannada actor Sudeep for his new film Kotigobba 2. But how could the Satya director do that without naming Rajinikanth in the tweet?

I just saw kotigobba 2 and I honestly think u shud change ur name from Kiccha Sudeepa to Rajni Sudeepa..👍👍👍

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) August 16, 2016

But Rajni can do just only one type whereas u proved ur better versatality from Autograph to Eega to Kotigobba 2 to many more

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) August 16, 2016

U can anyday do a Robot in ur sleep but Rajnikant can't do a Eega even in his dream..Respect🙏

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) August 16, 2016

But RGV was not done yet. He went on to say that Kannada actor Vishnuvardhan’s performance was amateur in the 2001 film Kotigobba, the sequel of Sudeep’s film and a remake of the Rajini-starrer Baasha.

Saw Kotigobba..compared to ur performance in Kotigobba 2 Vishnuvardhan looks amateur n if his fans disagree they also amateur

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) August 16, 2016

Thankfully Sudeep himself shut Varma up with a polite but clear tweet saying that he cannot match up to the two stars.

thanks fr th appreciation sir....but I'm nowhere close nor a comparison to th two legends,,Vishnusir & RajiniSir..

— Kichcha Sudeepa (@KicchaSudeep) August 16, 2016

Thalaivar fans also did not take the insult lying down and paid RGV back in his own coin.

Dear RGV, I am a fan of ur movies, for u health sake plz do concern my request, Do visit a psychiatrist near by!!!

— Vijay Balasubramaniam (@Oru_Karuthu) August 16, 2016

thank god film making became digitized! All the FILM #RGV wasted would have gone as toilet paper!

— Cinemapayyan (@cinemapayyan) August 16, 2016

RGV Sir you can direct #Raktcharitr 2 3 4 5 100 but you can't make atleast Robo teaser 😂😂😂 #Kabali

— Siddaraj M S(ಸಿದ್ದರಾಜ್ ಎಂ ಎಸ್)सिद्धराज🇮🇳 (@imSiddaraj) August 18, 2016

This might be Varma’s style of appreciating performances since he always chooses to compare people with Rajini to heap praises on them. Even while praising Amitabh Bachchan’s performance in Teen, he took a dig at Thalaiva.

My belief as a Rajni fan is If @SrBachchan does Robot it will do far far better and if @superstarrajini does Te3n it will do far far lesser

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) June 14, 2016

In a series of tweets in April he went all out to criticise Rajinikanth for his looks. Among other things he also said, “He is a bad looker, doesn’t have 6 packs, short with a disproportionate body n knows just 2 nd half dance movements.”

Nowhere in world a man who looks like this can be SuperStar .I wonder what he did to God that God did this to him pic.twitter.com/k32oXkbVmn

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) April 16, 2016

But soon realising the mess he had got himself into he took a complete u-turn and said that his ‘compliments’ for the star were being misunderstood.

Some superdumb fans of Rajnikant dint even realise that I was only complimenting the superstar

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) April 17, 2016

Just this week he had got himself into another controversy when he poked fun at US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle posting an old picture of them.

Barack seems like a woman and Michelle seems like a man and that's what is an American Remix pic.twitter.com/4FV4tPKEhF

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) August 15, 2016

This and his other such tweets make us wonder what really went wrong with the filmmaker who gave us films like Rangeela and Company. Our suggestion would be to get off Twitter and concentrate on film scripts.