Oscar-Winner Resul Pookutty Calls RRR ‘Gay Love Story’, Says Alia Bhatt Was ‘A Prop’ In Film

Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty is getting brutally trolled for taking a dig at SS Rajamouli’s RRR, calling it a ‘gay love story’, and claiming Alia Bhatt was a prop in the film.

RRR gay love story?

Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty, who has also worked on some of the biggest Indian films over the years, has called SS Rajamouli’s Pan India film RRR a ‘gay love story’. Saying this on social media, he also said that Alia Bhatt was used as ‘a prop’ in the movie, which stars Ram Charan and Jr NTR in the lead roles.

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On July 3, a user named Munish Bharadwaj took to Twitter and called RRR ‘garbage’. This is what his tweet read, “Saw 30 minutes of garbage called RRR last night (sic).”

Resul Pookutty responded to Munish’s tweet and wrote, “Gay love story (sic)”, “and @aliaa08 is a prop in that film (sic).”

This didn’t go down well with netizens.

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Fans Reaction

After this reaction, fans angrily reacted to Resul’s comment and added that they didn’t expect such a response from an Oscar winner. While he disabled the reply button on his tweets, netizens quoted him and slammed him on the platform. And minutes back, Resul defended himself. But first, take a look at Resul’s controversial tweets about RRR.

One user wrote, ” There is no shame & harm even if it’s that kind of story #LGBT. Did not expect such low comments from an Oscar award winner. Respect should be given to the profession irrespective of its language & even if it does not satisfy us. While other fans claimed that he is jealous of the success and called him highly unprofessional for his comments on the film. ” Sad he is behaving like a troll”. wrote of a fan of the film.