There have been severe and intractable problems within the Movie Artists Association. Recently, the issue went to the court as well.

Today at a meeting of MAA, there reportedly was a war of words between the groups led by President Naresh and General Secretary Jeevitha Rajasekhar. The latter had called for a meeting today and it was reportedly not to the liking of Naresh. The new President is understood to have sent out messages to MAA members not to attend the meeting.

It's believed that Paruchuri Gopalakrishna was deeply hurt by the turn of events and left the place with tears in his eyes.

Prudhvi, who is an Executive Committee member, said that he would rather demit office than be witness to the fracas.