HYDERABAD: Veteran Telugu film actor Chalapathi Rao has been booked for making sexually coloured remarks against women and also for using words to insult modesty of women. Two cases have been booked against him at Jubilee Hills and Saroornagar police stations.
Women activists from Hyderabad on Tuesday lodged separate complaints stating that actor Chalapathi Rao had made derogatory comments against women during an audio launch programme that was held at Annapurna Studios in Hyderabad.
Condemning the remarks made by Rao, Network Of Women In Media, India (NWMI) claimed that it has been Rao’s regular behaviour. “Chalapathi Rao is a repeat offender in this kind of sexist behaviour. In an earlier television interview, he (Rao) vulgarly claimed that he raped many women.
At that time too, when he was cornered, he wiggled out of it saying that he was referring to rapes in films,” said the organisation.
Defending himself, Chalapati Rao claimed that those who are attacking him are fed on double-meaning Telugu reality shows on TV and that is the reason for their misinterpretation of his statement.
Based on the complaints, the police have booked two separate cases under sections 354 A (IV) and 509 of IPC.