Recently during the success meet of latest blockbuster Veera Simha Reddy, Nandamuri Balakrishna made a Controversial speech.

The clips were all trending on social media. Especially Nandamuri Balakrishna comments about legendary SV Ranga Rao Garu and Akkineni Nageswara Rao Garu gone viral. And everyone expressed thier dissatisfaction about the speech.

This didn’t go well with a certain section of netizens, and they found the star’s comments derogatory. Today, Akkineni family members Naga Chaitanya and Akhil Akkineni issued a joint statement in this regard now, which has already gone viral.

They wrote that "NTR garu, Akkineni Nageswara Rao garu and S.V Ranga Rao garu's creative contributions have been the pride and pillars of Telugu Cinema. Disrespecting them is degrading ourselves"