A senior Bollywood journalist, Jyothi Venkatesh, recently claimed that filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma had secretly married actress Urmila Matondkar. "Chiranjeevi told me", Venkatesh claimed, adding, "I asked him, 'When did they get married?' He told me that RGV had taken Urmila to a famous temple in Andhra Pradesh." He added, "When I...asked [Urmila] about it, she started crying."