MUMBAI: Ramgopal Varma‘s latest film Rakta Charitra ran into problems in some places of Andhra Pradesh when Telugu Desam Party workers blocked the screening of it. They were protesting against misrepresentation of facts related to party founder-president NT Rama Rao in the film.

The party workers took strong objection to three main scenes in the film including one that sought to portray Rao as a timid person. Relenting to the TDP protest, Varma announced late in the evening that he would delete that particular scene and also other portions, if Rao‘s family felt offended.

The controversial film, which Varma claimed was based on real-life faction feud between slain TDP leader Paritala Ravindra and his opponents in Anantpur district, has Vivek Oberoi playing the lead role.

While screening of one show of the film was stopped in Vishakhapatnam and Anantapur districts, protests were held in Karimnagar, Srikakulam, Vijayawada in Krishna district and Tirupati in Chittoor districts against the screening of the film.