Rashmika Mandanna Talks About Deepfake Videos After Alia Bhatt Falls Prey: 'This Is Not Normal'

Rashmika Mandanna opened up about her viral deepfake video just hours after Alia Bhatt became a victim of the same. The South Indian actress was promoting her upcoming film, Animal, with Ranbir Kapoor in hyderabad. She was asked about the incident and Amitabh Bachchan’s support when Rashmika confessed she was worried that no one might care. However, after Amitabh backed her, she got the courage to stand up for herself and revolt against this.

Rashmika said, “Firstly when I saw the deepfake video, I was very scared and worried seeing all of this happening. I thought I would not get any support from the team. The first person to support me was Amitabh Bachchan. Eventually more people came forward to support.” She added that intially it did affect her. Such videos are not supposed to be normal and decided to react.

“It made me feel secure,” she said, speaking about putting her foot down and taking an action. “I want to tell all the girls out there that this is not normal. You don’t have to keep quiet when something is affecting you. You can take support, you can react and people will support you. It’s a good country that we live in,” Rashmika added.

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Her comment comes just hours after a deepfake video of Alia Bhatt has gone viral online. In the video, Alia Bhatt’s face is edited over a different lady and the latter can be seen sitting on the bed. The video features a girl wearing a blue floral, strapy co-ord set featuring Alia’s face, while she makes gestures towards the camera. Alia is yet to react to it.

Earlier this month, a video went viral claiming that it was Rashmika Mandanna in the frame. However, it was later revealed that Rashmika’s face was morphed into the video to create a false narrative. After the video went viral, Amitabh Bachchan demanded legal action and extended his support to Rashmika.

The actress also issued a statement about the viral video at the time. “I feel really hurt to share this and have to talk about the deepfake video of me being spread online. Something like this is honestly, extremely scary not only for me, but also for each one of us who today is vulnerable to so much harm because of how technology is being misused. Today, as a woman and as an actor, I am thankful for my family, friends and well wishers who are my protection and support system. But 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,” she said.

It has been reported that necessary steps against the viral video are being taken.