Son of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Bhaskara Rao, Murlidhar has slapped a legal notice against Telugu actor Balakrishna who is making a biopic on his father. He has also served legal notices to Tollywood director Jagarlamudi Radhakrishna alias Krish. Sources said the NTR biopic is N Balakrishna's ambitious project on NT Rama Rao, a thespian and politician par excellence. He had a huge fan following and had served the state as CM for three consecutive terms.
The complainant believes that the biopic includes episodes from Bhaskara Rao's life that show how he had “backstabbed” NTR with help from the Centre and formed the government in 1984 while NTR was in the US for a heart surgery. Murlidhar said he had no qualms against the making of the biopic but added that what his father did in 1984 cannot be termed as “backstabbing” . “We are only against presenting our father Bhaskara Rao in a poor light in the movie. It's not appropriate for anybody to portray a great leader in a negative shade for the sake of eulogising another leader,” he said.
