Bollywood actress Sridevi has sent a legal notice to Ram Gopal Varma objecting to the filmmaker using her name as the title of his upcoming Telugu film “Sridevi.” The film which was initially titled “Saviri” was renamed “Sridevi” after producer Neelima Tirumalsetty objected to the film’s title claiming that she had already registered it.
Sridevi filed a cease and desist notice prohibiting the filmmaker from using her name as the title of his next film. It is learnt that Sridevi even demanded that the filmmaker issue an unconditional apology for using her name without her consent and demanded to respond to the notice.
Sridevi’s husband Boney Kapoor spoke to Ram Gopal Varma before going legal, but Ram Gopal Varma tried very little to solve the serious matter.
Ram Gopal Varma took to his blog earlier on June 5, 2010: “I don’t go to Boney’s house these days because I can’t bear to see Sridevi in a realistic house, in a realistic atmosphere and with realistic people around... For me, she is like a highly precious diamond, which should be seen, only in beautiful settings or in exotic locations and only in the surroundings of cinematic brilliance... Sridevi is the most beautiful, most sexiest woman God ever created and I think he creates such exquisite pieces of art like her only once in a million years... I thank god for creating Sridevi and I thank Louis Lumiere for creating the movie camera to capture her beauty forever.”
The movie posters of Ram Gopal Varma’s “Sridevi” is about a teenage boy who lusts an elderly woman, shown through the boy looking curiously at the private parts of the lady.