HYDERABAD: Mahesh Babu’s latest flick Dukudu, which hit the screens on Friday, ran into rough weather during its very first show in Ranga Reddy district.A group of Telangana students obstructed its screening at some cinemas demanding that the film unit apologise for booking a case against them.Dukudu’s screening was reportedly stopped at one cinema each in Vikarabad, Parigi, Tandur, Chevella and Shamshabad.The film unit had planned a shooting schedule at the Vikarabad railway station on July 30.But their plans went awry after the Telangana Students’ Joint Action Committee (TJAC) activists entered the scene and demanded that Mahesh Babu make his stand clear on the Telangana issue.Following a scuffle, the students damaged a bus of the film unit and subsequently, a case was booked against them by the Vikarabad police.The students hit back on Friday disrupting the screening of the film.They calmed down only after the production manager of the film Ram Babu went to Vikarabad and tendered an apology besides promising to withdraw the case against them.“We allowed the screening of the matinee after the apology,’’ TSJAC Ranga Reddy president Shubhapradha Patel said adding that actors from non-Telangana regions should say Jai Telangana before shooting in films in the region.This is not the first time that Mahesh Babu has faced the T activists’ wrath.Earlier, a Rs. 2-crore set erected for the shooting of his last movie Khaleja in Vikarabad forests was torched by them.Recently protestors stopped Ravi Teja’s shooting too.
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