HYDERABAD: Actress Nayantara, who is all set to play the role of Sita in the upcoming Telugu film ‘Sri Rama Rajyam,’ has started earning the wrath of various women and Hindu organizations.
The secretary of Hindu Makkal Kachi said that the makers of ‘Sri Rama Rajyam’, which is based on the Ramayana, has made the wrong choice when it comes to casting Nayantara in a lead role.
“The epic is based on the principle of ‘one man, one woman in life’ and Nayantara has ruined the concept by stealing another woman’s husband. So she doesn’t have any right to play the role of Goddess Sita,” he argues. The HMK also said that Nayantara as Sita would “hurt the sentiments of Hindus.”
Nayantara, who has been refusing to sign any new film stating her marriage reasons, reportedly said yes to play the female lead in Telugu superstar Balakrishna’s mythological film. It comes as a surprise as she has turned down many big films in recent times.
Veteran director Bapu’s ‘Sri Rama Rajyam’ is inspired from the epic story of the fight between Lord Rama and Ravana. He has roped in Ilayaraja to compose the music.
Nayantara had recently completed the filming of Upendra’s trilingual movie ‘Super’ and Shyamaprasad’s Malayalam movie ‘Electra’. Meanwhile, her affair with Prabhu Deva is still going strong despite the issue being in the eye of a storm for some time now. A few days ago, summons was issued through post and courier to Prabhu and Nayantara after they failed to appear for the third consecutive hearing at a family court in Chennai in connection with a petition filed by Prabhu’s wife.
In her petition, the choreographer-filmmaker’s wife Ramlath aka Latha alleged that Prabhu and Nayantara were in a relationship and urged the court to separate her husband from the “clutches” of the actress. When the matter came up before Justice S Meenakshisundaram, Latha’s counsel informed the court that all their attempts to serve the court notices on the actors had failed. Following this, the judge permitted Latha’s counsel to serve fresh notices on Nayantara and Prabhu “through court, post and also through courier.”
The case has been adjourned to January 21, 2011, for further proceedings.