New Delhi:Ram Gopal Varma, who has been a big supporter of Dhurandhar movie, Aditya Dhar and , shared a long note and extended support to the actor over Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) on his X account. The filmmaker termed the ban as a joke and said that this ban is neither protecting the industry nor the workers as claimed by the chairman of FWICE.
RGV started with, 'Ban FWICE and not Ranveer Singh. The so called ban or non co operation in the style of Gandhiji, will finally turn a big fat joke on FWICE. This is not about protecting workers or industry as they claim. It’s just pure performative muscle flexing by an extremely outdated union system desperately trying to hold on to their grip. Whether it claims to speak for more than Rs 5 lakh workers or Rs 50 lakh workers, the bitter truth is that most of these lakhs are not even aware of the internal facts of the dispute between the two parties.'
FWICE is not a court or government authorised: Ram Gopal Varma
The filmmaker added,FWICE is neither a court of legal justice nor a government authorised regulatory body, and at best it's a kangaroo court, which by definition pretends to deliver justice, but in actual fact it disregards established legal rules, due process, and impartiality. This is because the verdict is most of the times pre-decided by a bunch of agenda driven people who meet in the closet and include actors who are shitting bricks at Ranveer’s mega success in Dhurandhar. It screams desperation while at the same time showing its outdatedness. This will be a massive PR Disaster for FWICE because
First of all the livelihoods of lakhs of workers in the industry are not attached to any one actor or any one project and it is a big lie they are trying to dump on social media to create an attrition, Ram Gopal Varma wrote in the same X post.
Ram Gopal Varma questions importance of FWICE in the matter
Varma further wrote, 'The whole issue is about a producer claiming huge losses at the pre-production stage which is just a private contractual dispute between two parties as it happens in millions of cases everyday and all over India in all businesses and then where are the concerned FWICE's there?'
'Also only the disputing parties will know the intricacies about what happened, and so the matter should be between them like any other civil matter, and in case one or both appeal to a court, the judge decides the matter. And if it is also about the main technicians whose time and effort was wasted then, as per their claims, I challenge any of them to come forward individually with proof and publicly blame Ranveer and take a stand never to work on his film again for the distress he caused..'
Ranveer Singh is openly supported by Ram Gopal Varma
Concluding his post, the filmmaker wrote, “It is stars like Ranveer that sell tickets at the theatres and not FWICE. FWICE does not create employment to those lakhs of FWICE workers, it is stars like Ranveer who do. It is only because of stars like Ranveer that the industry exists and also the FWICE exists. So in a summation, here is my unsolicited advise to all concerned 'Let’s not poke our unwanted noses into a civil dispute between 2 parties.
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