On Tuesday night, Ram Gopal Varma plugged on Twitter a video clip in which a middle-aged man is seen blissfully killing an animal. Drawing a parallel with the Salman Khan episode (the Bollywood star was charged for killing a blackbuck in the 1990s), the director angrily asked the Indian law enforcement authorities why the person in the video clip has been let off.

"If Salman Khan is being hunted by police and courts for hunting a deer in a forest, shouldn’t the same police and courts hunt this terrible bastard who’s practicing hunting in his own front yard? If at all there is justice, I demand the police and courts to answer this. Salman‘s main crime is that he is a superstar and the deer thing is just an excuse to punish him for his stardom," RGV said.

Like many things RGV, this too was much ado about nothing. The video clip is actually from Bangladesh. IFS officer Parveen Kaswan educated RGV, saying this much: "You need to ask this from the police of Bangladesh. Because that is from where the video is. From Chittagong to be precise."

Anyways, RGV's primary concern was to defend Salman, not the poor animal.

If Salman khan is being hunted by police and courts for hunting a deer in a forest,shouldn’t the same police and courts hunt this terrible bastard who’s practicing hunting in his own front yard ??? If at all there is justice I demand the police and courts to answer this pic.twitter.com/7taCgLx0gb

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) January 28, 2020