Ram Gopal Varma is known for his penchant for publicity but the director may have gone too far this time as he is being slammed for using the Neeraj Grover case to promote his upcoming film 'Not A Love Story', which he says is inspired by the murder of the TV executive.
Varma, who has been constantly tweeting about the case and his movie, chose the day of verdict to release the first look of the movie and offered a role in his next project to Maria Susairaj, who has been absolved of the murder charges in the Grover death case.
His constant tweets have not gone down too well with Neeraj's family and others.
Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal slammed Varma for trying to cash in on the case because of its ‘sensation’ value. "I don't like that because I think that the whole thing is terrible. That if anybody can stoop so low simply because you want to cash in on it because of the sensation value of it and because people want to," he said.
Neeraj's father Amarnath Grover is upset that Varma decided to make a movie on his son's life without asking the family. "I recently found out from Neeraj's friend in Mumbai that something of this sort is happening. His friend had received a call from Varma about the movie and I have told him to tell Varma that if he is making a movie on my son's death he will have to talk to me first," Amarnath said.
"I don't want my son's death to be a joke and it's sad that Varma has already started making the movie and never spoke to me about it."