Tollywood C/o Kancharapalem director Venkatesh Maha is being trolled heavily for criticising the Kgf films in a discussion about commercial and unconventional films in a recent interview. InstagramTelugu filmmaker and actor Venkatesh Maha, who is most widely recognised for his 2018 film C/o Kancharapalem, has found himself in the middle of a controversy after expressing an unpopular opinion about the blockbuster Kannada film series Kgf. Maha was speaking at a ‘Women’s Day Special Interview’ with five Telugu filmmakers moderated by film journalist Prema, when the conversation veered towards the topic of formulaic movies. The five directors — Venkatesh Maha, Shiva Nirvana, Mohan Krishna Indraganti, Nandini Reddy and Vivek Athreya — are among some of the Telugu filmmakers known for occasionally making relatively experimental and less formulaic films than most other mainstream, commercial filmmakers in the industry. A video clip from the interview which was released on March 5 on YouTube soon became viral,...