Recently, Tamareddy Chalapathi Rao made an extremely derogatory comment about women at the audio launch of ‘Ra Randoi Veduka Chudham’. It came in as quite a shock because the veteran actor is one of the iconic faces of Tollywood. The movie, ‘Ra Randoi Veduka Chudham’ comes with a tagline, “Girls are injurious to the peace of mind.” When asked about that, Chalapathi Rao replied, “Women are only fit for sleeping with men.”

His comment resulted in a huge eruption in social media. The producer of the film, Nagarjuna Akkineni had to apologize to everybody else. He tweeted, “I always respect women personally and in my films/I definitely do not agree with Chalapathi Rao’ss derogatory comments/dinosaurs do not exist (sic).” 

While Chalapathi Rao’s comments have been making its rounds in social media, it was noticed that, Tollywood is quite famous for its often derogatory comments about women. Here are “” actors who made controversial statements about women: 

Nani about Raashi Kanna:

 

At the trailer launch of Raashi Kanna’s movie, Hyper, Nani said, “Rashi, you look beautiful and I can’t say more as it will not sound good. I used the word ‘beautiful’ because it is neat and classy, but everyone here knows just how beautiful you are.” Even though his words were laughed off at the event, social media did not forgive him.