Vijayawada Mayor requests theatre to provide tickets for Prabhas's Radhe Shyam, letter goes viral

Vijayawada Mayor Rayana Bhagya Lakshmi requested 100 tickets for Prabhas's Radhe Shyam. The Mayor asked the multiplex owner to allot 100 tickets for all new releases.

Vijayawada Mayor Rayana Bhagya Lakshmi wrote a letter to a multiplex in the city requesting tickets for Prabhas and Pooja Hegde's Radhe Shyam. The letter, in which Raya had requested allotment of Rs 100 tickets to the Honourable Mayor's Chamber, has gone viral on social media. In the letter, he had mentioned that the Mayor's office would pay the amount for the tickets.

Prabhas and Pooja Hegde's Radhe Shyam hit the theatres today, March 11, after a long wait. Directed by Radha Krishna Kumar, the film is a period love story and produced on a massive budget.

Vijayawada Mayor Rayana Bhagya Lakshmi, in a letter to a multiplex owner, requested allotment of 100 tickets for each show to the Mayor's Chamber for Radhe Shyam and upcoming releases. The letter went viral on social media and caught everyone's attention.

The letter read, "It is to inform that in Vijayawada Municipal Corporation limits every month various new cinemas are releasing in the malls. The party representatives and Ward corporators are requesting for arranging cinema tickets for new releases. Therefore, it is requested to provide 100 no.s of tickets for each show to the Hon'ble Mayor's Chamber, Vijayawada Municipal Corporation in your cinema theatre without fail. The necessary ticket charges will be paid in cash. From the next new releases, this procedure needs to be followed (sic)."

Here's a copy of the letter:

Directed by Radha Krishna Kumar, Radhe Shyam is produced on a massive budget by UV Creations. The film also features Sathyaraj, Jagapathi Babu, Bhagyashree, Sachin Khedekar and Priyadarshi Pullikonda in important roles. Radhe Shyam was in the making for over two years.

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