adah sharma and continues to pester her to allow him to kiss her much to her embarrassment the complications that arise when such a guy falls in love with a conventional telugu girl forms the crux of the film i respect women a lot the director has earned a lot of flak for the portrayal of the female characters in his movies he believes most of it is groundless i have a lot of respect for women and all the female characters in my movies are independent women who drive the movie just because the heroes in my movies address the women as ossey womens rights crusaders have branded me a sexist going by that logic the heroes address the villains much more derogatively but that never seems to offend any sensibilities he retorts assuring that adah sharma will not be reduced to a glam doll in the movie adah is a very talented actress and her performance will speak for itself he saysa new start puri is producing the film under a new banner puri jagannadh touring talkies he reckons its the film will be akin to the refresh button for his 14 year career five years ago puri was literally on the roads after his good friend and manager swindled him off all his earningshe sold all his properties and moved into a rented apartment with my family it was one of the main reasons behind me getting to production it took me five years to repay all my debts which is why i believe this movie is as important as my debut film he explainsno fall out with pawan kalyan the maverick director was in the news recently for his alleged fall out with the protagonist of his debut film pawan kalyan the filmmaker was quoted as saying he would never work with pawan again after cameraman ganga tho rambabu the director brushes it aside as a nonissue it was at the end of a long day of promotions for my last film journalists tend to ask some stock questions about when will i work with mahesh pawan prabhas etc in every interview it was one such stock question for which i answered who knows when it will happen in an offthecuff manner as it turned out the next day just that one remark made the headlines i owe my career to pawan and would love to work with him again he clarifies