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The Sivamani Of Telangana!

The Sivamani Of Telangana!

“Naa Peru Sivamani. Naaku Koncham Mental! Idi naa number 9848022338. Meeku eppudu ye kashtam vacchina naaku call cheyyandi. 10 nimishallo mee munduntanu.” (My name is Sivamani. I’m slightly retarded. This is my number. If you are facing any problems call me and I’ll be in front of you in 10 minutes).

Film buffs would remember this popular dialogue from Nagarjuna's movie, Sivamani which was directed by Puri Jagannath.

In the movie, Nagarjuna plays a sincere cop and does respond to calls on his mobile.

Maybe KCR watched this movie and liked it a lot for he replicated nearly the same scene from the movie in Warangal when he gave out a helpline number to the public.

The public are supposed to dial the number when they are being harassed for bribes. But unfortunately, this is real life and the latest update initially was that the number given by KCR was not working.

Why? A joke doing the rounds is that the first call was made complaining against KCR himself after which the number became dysfunctional.

But towards evening of KCR giving out the number, more than 3000 complaints are reported to have been filed.

Judging by this rate, the authorities are concerned that they would be unable to handle the volume of traffic and the number of complaints may soon outnumber the number of pending legal cases in the Courts of India.

KCR should have thought twice before making or announcing such dramatic measures!

So, rather than the tagline of Sivamani which says ‘Naaku Koncham Mental’maybe a modified tagline of Gabbar Singh would do more justice to the character of KCR. ‘Naa Peru KCR! Naaku koncham tikkundi, kaani daniki lekka ledhu’.

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