By Sharanya Gopinathan
Oh god, how did we miss this in our round up of vaanthi International Women’s Day messages? Yesterday India’s penultimate circus clown Ram Gopal Varma outdid himself with his stupid tweet about Sunny Leone on Women’s Day.
https://twitter.com/RGVzoomin/status/839294572031164416
He went on to address all the flak he was receiving because of it, saying that Sunny Leone has more self-respect that anyone, and then quickly tried to hide and look like a detached observer of human nature or something.
https://twitter.com/RGVzoomin/status/839423700071931904
A complaint was filed against him for the tweet, and a film association, the Film Studio Setting & Allied Mazdoor Union, has decided to boycott him over the tweet. Later Ram Gopal Varma was wondering on Twitter if there’s a Women’s Night like how there’s Women’s Day. What a great mind.
Sunny Leone, of course, wasn’t going to just let it fly, and she addressed the issue with characteristic elan (remember the time she set a vaanthi uncle straight on live television?). In a short video posted yesterday, she said just one voice can’t change the world, and that she reads all the news, “so be careful with your words.”
Ram Gopal Varma offered an apology that was based on some conditions.
https://twitter.com/RGVzoomin/status/839840880299167744