With 'Peta' producer Ashok Vallabhaneni lamenting that his movie has not got an adequate number of theatres, the Sankranthi tussle was out in the open earlier in the week. Dil Raju hit back at Ashok, saying that 'Vinaya Vidheya Rama', 'F2' and 'NTR' have got theatres because they had announced the release dates first.

Now, Sri Reddy has turned out to be the first starlet to openly take sides with Ashok. She has slammed the ace producers whom Ashok had recently dubbed as a "theatre mafia".

"The legendary actor Rajinikanth garu 'Peta' movie has got only a few theaters in Telugu states? Shame on Tollywood movie mafia..thu..shame on Suresh Babu, Allu Aravind, Sunil Narang and Dil Raju..they are killing and creating situations to make a suicide to small producers ..very soon these four will hang their selves..god is there..your sons and your families no1 can be happy..shame on Tollywood..any Telugu dubbing movie who are producing above persons ban in Tamilnadu..kill this mafia leaders..shame shame tollywood..I am so sorry Peta movie distributor ashok garu for this situations (sic)," Sri Reddy, who recently shifted to Chennai, said.