 Drugs, money, sex trade in Tollywood |
Police have over the years unearthed crimes linked to big names in Tollywood. But the recent arrest of Dadar Express film producer K.V. Rao in the ephedrine drugs smuggling case has brought the notoriety within the industry into focus. Police say offenders from the film world take up crime with an eye to making quick and easy money. R.S. Praveen Kumar, the city’s joint commissioner of police, says crimes relating to women and money are rampant in T’wood. “To finance films, some producers resort to crimes like cheating, forgery,” he says.The sex trade is interlinked with Tollywood with filmmakers exploiting actresses and junior artists who enter the industry with dreams of making it big. There has been an instance where a film actress ran brothels. Film actress Jaya Lakshmi alias Seema and her mother Aadi Lakhsmi were arrested in 2009 January by City Task Force sleuths for the same.
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