Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, known for his work like Satya, Sarkar and Company that dealt with the underworld theme, is back in news.
No, the maverick RGV is not making a movie on the life of Yakub Memon. He is venting his ire at Tushar Gandhi, activist and Mahatma Gandhi’s great grandson, for opposing Yakub Memon’s execution on a news channel.
Gandhi was part of an initiative launched by some eminent citizens, including journalists, lawyers and activists, who were demanding a stay on Memon’s hanging based on a host of factors. Memon, accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was hanged to death on Thursday morning at a Nagpur jail after Supreme Court rejected his mercy plea.
Tushar had said on the show, “This is nothing but judiciary-sanctioned murder and (it) must be abolished. I am opposed to death penalty because execution is like evil countering evil and two evils cannot make a good. It is a medieval, barbaric practice to bring the accused of a crime to justice.”
Varma wrote on Twitter:
If he heard Tushar Gandhi’s imbecilities on Yakub, Mahatma Gandhi himself wud hav not only slapped Tushar,but wud hav punched him in stomach — Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015
He prefaced his comments on Gandhi and Memon with:
Sympathy of certain people on Memon is becos in his pics he looks normal like any of us whereas the dead 257 ppl are just a number
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015
I wish we can see pic of Memon along with pics of all murdered 257 people laid side by side..Only then his horrificness can be understood
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015
Talking about Gandhi, the filmmaker wrote:
I so wish the Mahatma was alive to slap his great grandson Tushar for so foolishly misunderstanding the very concept of nonviolence — Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015
Not satisfied with a mere slap, he added in the next tweet:
If Mahatma Gandhi would have seen his great grandson Tushar Gandhi on Times Now tonite he would have renounced Non violence and hanged him
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015
Seeing Tushar gandhi talk on Times now on Yakub am so glad he was not fighting British ..if so we would have been still under British — Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015
Whether Tushar Gandhi is imbecile or retard or whatever,he for sure is a embarrassment..Am so glad Mahatma wasn’t here 2 see Times now today — Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015
The director who has had face-offs with many other people due to his Twitter comments in the past, topped his tweets off with this:
Mahatma Gandhi would have put the country first against his imbecile great grandson and would have given all us Indians justice — Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015
