Mrunal Thakur, Naga Chaitanya and Chinmayi express concern after Rashmika Mandanna’s deepfake video goes viral

After Rashmika Mandana’s deepfake video created a stir on the internet, many celebrities including Amitabh Bachchan, Mrunal Thakur and Naga Chaitanya reacted to the viral video.

Rashmika Mandanas An AI-generated deepfake video of entering an elevator went viral on the internet. After veteran star Amitabh Bachchan expressed his concerns, actors like Naga Chaitanya, Mrunal Thakur and Chinmayi Sripaada have reacted to the video. The video was posted to Instagram by British-Indian Zara Patel on October 9, 2023 and has been viewed more than 18 million times on X (formerly known as Twitter).

Amitabh Bachchan speaks in support of Rashmika Mandanna

This is what Amitabh Bachchan posted on X:

yes, this is a strong legal argument https://t.co/wHJl7PSYPN

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) November 5, 2023

Mrunal Thakur thanks Rashmika Mandanna for her opinion

Mrunal Thakur wrote a note in support of Rashmika Mandanna on her Instagram account on Monday evening. It said: ‘Shame on people who resort to such things, it shows that such people have no conscience at all. Thank you @rashmika_mandanna for your voice and for addressing this issue that we have seen glimpses of so far, but many of us have chosen to remain silent. Every day, distorted, edited videos of female actors zooming in on inappropriate body parts float around the internet. Where are we going as a community and as a society? We may be actresses in the ‘spotlight’, but at the end of the day we are all human. Why don’t we talk about it? Don’t stay silent, this is not the time (sic).”

Telugu actor Naga Chaitanya ‘calls for action’

Naga Chaitanya also commented on Rashmika Mandanna’s viral video on Action needs to be taken and some kind of law enforced to protect people who have been and will be affected by this. Good luck to you.” Rashmika shared her condolences with Chaitanya on the social media website.

Naga Chaitanya reacts to Rashmika Mandanna’s AI-generated video:

It’s really disheartening to see how technology is being misused and the thought of what this could lead to in the future is even scarier.
Action needs to be taken and some kind of law enforced to protect people who have been and will be affected by this. Good luck to you. https://t.co/IKIiEJtkSx

— chaitanya akkineni (@chay_akkineni) November 6, 2023

Chinmayi Sripaada ‘raises awareness on the misuse of AI’

Singer Chinmayi Sripada addressed the community through X to raise awareness about the issue at hand. She wrote on It was a deep forgery. No one knows for sure whether Ms Simran had consented in advance to her likeness being used in the Deep Fake AI rendering of Kaavaalaa. She also shared it on her social media pages (sic).”

Chinmayi added, “Now a deepfake Rashmika video has surfaced and I just saw her Instagram story where she looks genuinely disturbed. In a country where women’s bodies are exploited every day, Deep Fake will be the next weapon they use to attack and harass people. blackmailing girls to extort, blackmail and rape; Their ignorant families in a small village or town will not understand when the so-called moonam / or honor is at stake. Lending apps harass female borrowers with photoshopped images of their faces over pornographic photos, and they can’t handle it. But a Deep Fake will be harder to spot for the usual, untrained eye.”

“Not everyone has high-resolution screens. I really hope that there will be a national awareness campaign that can start quickly to educate the general public about the dangers of deepfakes for girls and to report incidents instead of taking matters into their own hands,” she concluded.

Chinmayi Sripaada expresses concern over AI-generated video:

A few months ago, a video was released of one of our most favorite actors in an AI avatar, performing for Jailer’s Kaavaalaa – only it wasn’t her. It was a deep forgery.
No one knows for sure whether Ms Simran had agreed in advance to her likeness being used in the Deep Fake AI…

— Chinmayi Sripada (@Chinmayi) November 6, 2023

Reacting to Chinmayi’s comment on

Thank you @Chinmayi for creating awareness about this🙏🏼 in the hope that strict action is taken and regulated guidelines are implemented. https://t.co/zlo8rJyXw8

— Rashmika Mandanna (@iamRashmika) November 6, 2023

Rashmika Mandanna responded to the deepfake video and called it ‘disheartening’. She said: “Watching the viral video was disheartening.” She went on to say, “But if this happened to me when I was in school or college, I honestly can’t imagine how I could ever handle this.” She called for legal action against the deepfake viral video.