New Delhi: Ram Gopal Varma has finally spoken up about the controversy surrounding his visit to the iconic Taj Hotel attacked by militants during the siege of Mumbai in 2008.
In a public document titled 'Terrortour', Varma said the allegation of his seeming insensitivity towards the incident came out of a speculation that the late Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh facilitated his visit to the Taj for him to have access to unseen views, in view of him casting his son Riteish in a film that he was planning to do on those attacks.
"What could I have possibly seen at that place what the media had not already been showing ever since the attacks began?" said Varma who is launching the first look of his film 'The attacks of 26/11' on Friday.
Here is Varma's complete statement reproduced verbatim:...
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