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Ram Gopal Varma Calls 'Game Changer' Box-Office Collections 'Fraud' And 'Unbelievably Naive Lies'
There have been murmurs in the trade about the makers of 'Game Changer' inflating their daily box-office collection, with claims of manipulation done to the tune of nearly ₹100 crore on day one itself.
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has called out the legitimacy of the box-office collections of director Shankar and actor Ram Charan's political thriller Game Changer, which, according to the makers, took a mammoth global opening of ₹ 186 crores. Varma, without mincing any words, called it "fraud".
Varma took to X and tagged filmmaker SS Rajamouli (Baahubali franchise and RRR) and Sukumar (Pushpa franchise) for raising the box-office standards of Telugu cinema with their movies and sending "shock waves into Bollywood".
But then, the Satya filmmaker claimed that the Game Changer makers have "succeeded" in proving that south Indian cinema is "much more fantastic in being a fraud".
"If @ssrajamouli and @SukumarWritings sky rocketed Telugu cinema in real-time collections into a fantastically stratospheric heights thereby sending legitimate shock waves into Bollywood, the people behind G C succeeded in proving that the south is much more fantastic in being a fraud," a part of his tweet read.
Varma wondered who was orchestrating the "highly humiliating disgracing insult" which threatens to cast a shadow of doubt on the box-office achievements of titles Baahubali, RRR, KGF Chapter 2, and Kantara. Directed by S Shankar, Game Changer is produced by Dil Raju under Sri Venkateswara Creations.
He continued, "I truly don’t know who’s behind this highly humiliating disgracing insult of undermining the extraordinary achievements of South thanks to Baahubali, RRR, KGF 2, Kantara etc and all of their achievements will be now in doubt because of G C claims..."
"I don’t know who’s behind these unbelievably naive lies, but for sure it can’t be producer Dil Raju because he is a truly grounded realist and he’s incapable of the fraud that is being committed," Varma added.
The filmmaker, in a separate tweet, also hit out against the apparent ₹450 crore budget of Game Changer, claiming that was fake as well.
"If G C costed some ₹450 cr then RRR in its extraordinary never before seen visual appeal should have costed ₹4500 cr and if G C film’s first day collections are ₹186 cr on day 1 , then Pushpa 2 collections should have been ₹1,860 cr...
"The point is that the fundamental requirement of truth is that it should sound believable and in the context of G C a lie should sound even more believable," he concluded.
There have been murmurs in the trade about the makers of Game Changers inflating their daily box-office collection, with claims of manipulation done to the tune of nearly ₹100 crore on day one itself.
Game Changer, also starring Kiara Advani, opened to mixed reviews. The film's India-nett collection is under ₹100 crore according to trade estimates.