B-Town vs Tollywood: Moles controversy exaggerated?

A couple of days back a huge controversy erupted when a journalist during DJ Tillu trailer launch asked hero Siddhu Jonnalagadda whether he found out the moles on heroine Neha Shetty in real, taking the cue from the dialogue in the trailer which hero delivers to heroine.

While Sidhu Jonnalagadda avoided the question tactfully, by evening controversy erupted with Neha Shetty expressing her displeasure over the question and producer apologizing to Neha Shetty over the incident. This resulted in intense discussion over the journalistic values and also how people running youtube channels are trying to hog the limelight with such questions in the stars media interaction.

But the question is who should be faulted with for the entire incident. The PROs, the filmmakers or the scribes. Since the film industry is associated with glamor, naturally everyone craves for media attention and will not leave the opportunity. The filmmakers will try to attract youth with romantic scenes and such dialogues, while heroes and heroines spice up adding glamor to it. Taking advantage of it, few the scribes will try to catch the media attention and those who run youtube channels do the same by asking such questions.

So it is a vicious circle and the controversy is blown out of proportions compared to what one sees in Bollywood. There the actors and actresses and filmmakers themselves to generate hype on the project spread rumors on alleged love affairs between the lead pair or the parting of ways of the stars etc and in case of intimate scenes and liplocks how the wives of married stars got angry with them. All said and done, it is always better than no one crosses the thin red line and one should also take into consideration that emotions differ from person to person and they react to one situation in a different manner. Overall one cannot find out whether the entire incident is a part of the team's promotions or it was insensitive on part of the scribe because even after the controversy died down, the hero tried to keep the controversy going.