Rashmika Mandanna REACTS As Telangana Minister Calls Her Deepfake Video ‘Shameful’, Promises Action – News18

Rashmika Mandanna has been making headlines ever since her deepfake video went viral. While several prominent celebrities have come out in support of the Pushpa actress, Rashmika has now expressed gratitude to Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao for promising to bring legislation to take stern action against those who create such clips.

On Thursday, Rashmika Mandanna took to her Instagram stories and shared a video of the minister in which he was seen talking about the deepfake controversy. “I saw it in the news about what happened to Rashmika Mandanna. It’s truly atrocious to demean her and to go after someone like her who’s a celebrity. It’s deeply insulting and infuriating. Whatever regulations are to be brought, whatever stringent measures are to be brought in the form of legislation, we’re happy to bring it in our state and hopefully, the Government of India will also play along and do the same,” KTR said while speaking at the India Today Telangana Roundtable.

While Rashmika did not write anything, she simply dropped a folded-hands emoji in the caption to express her gratitude. Check out her story here:

For the unversed, a morphed video of Rashmika Mandanna recently went viral on social media. In the clip, the woman with Rashmika’s face was seen getting into a lift, wearing a fitted outfit. However, it was soon clarified that the viral clip was deepfake. It grabbed everyone’s attention after superstar Amitabh Bachchan also took to the microblogging site X and demanded legal action. Later, several celebrities including Nani, Vijay Deverakonda, Naga Chaitanya and Mrunal Thakur among others also expressed concern over the viral video.

Last week, Rashmika Mandanna also reacted to her deepfake video and called it ‘scary’. “If this happened to me when I was in school or college, I genuinely can’t imagine how could I ever tackle this. We need to address this as a community and with urgency before more of us are affected by such identity theft,” a part of her note read.