Actress Charmi lodged a complaint with the Movie Artistes’ Association (MAA) contending that producer Yalamanchi Ravichand had been harassing her for the last few months, by way of making obscene phone calls at odd hours and passing on lewd comments at her.
Charmi acted in the unreleased film titled Mayagadu, opposite hero Venu, and the film is produced by Ravichand. The heroine was roped in for the project, when she regained her lost ground in the industry with her hit film Mantra. Though the film was completet two years back, it could not release due to no buyers.
In this backdrop, Ravichand too lodged a complaint with the Telugu Film Producers Council, saying that Charmi had not accepted to be part of the promotional work for the film, which did exist in the agreement. “As I suffered huge losses due to non-release of the film, I approached the actress with a request to participate in the promotional work, but she denied.”
He also said that Charmi had subjected him to mental harassment by forcing him to spend huge amounts for her luxuries during the abroad shooting. “She also took huge amounts in the name of purchasing costumes, but she used her own costumes. On several occasions, she came to the sets very much delayed, leading to financial losses,” he said.
It may be noted here that four years ago, a producer Lokesh Dutt too launched a complaint against Charmi for not honoring the call sheets, by feigning neck pain. Later, the issue was solved in the coordination meeting, which found fault with the actress.
Recently there was news that Charmi is getting married to a Punjabi business man. Charmi while speaking about this said,” I got wild on hearing this news. So far they have been linking me with the heroes, directors and music directors. Now they are linking me with an unknown person. There is no romance for me and I am not that aged to get married.
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