Murari lashed out at the organizers of Centenary celebrations of Indian Cinema organized at Chennai in 2013 in which the then President of India Pranab Mukherjee was the Chief Guest and the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalitha was the guest of honor and recipient of a medallion for her contributions to cinema.
[5] Speaking on the sidelines of the function to the media, Katragadda Murari has called the recently concluded centenary celebrations of Indian cinema a 'disgrace' for the Telugu film industry as several veterans were not invited and those who attended were not given due respect.
[7] On a different occasion, he faulted prominent Telugu film director K. Raghavendra Rao for being awarded honorary doctorate by the Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM University) in the year 2014 at Visakhapatnam.
[8] "How can the Gitam University confer the director a Doctorate as he lacks dignity and held no social duty for over many years," he questioned.
[9] A video featuring the veteran producer's comments on Raghavendra Rao on the honorary doctorate issue became viral.