After turning down an offer to attend a Bengaluru film festival and claiming to be from Hyderabad, actress Rashmika Mandanna has been embroiled in a scandal. Several Kannada activists including Congress MLA Ravi Kumar Gowda, better known as Ravi Ganiga, are upset over this. Mandanna, who is from Karnataka’s Kodagu district, should accept her heritage and not claim to be from Hyderabad, according to Gowda.

Many Kannada-speaking individuals have expressed dissatisfaction and outrage over Mandanna’s remarks, which have created a heated discussion. Posts challenging her claim have been all over social media, with some even posing the issue of when her birthplace of Virajpet became a part of Hyderabad.

“Rashmika Mandanna began her career from Karnataka by making her debut in the Kannada film Kirik Party,” Gowda said. According to the Deccan Herald, she previously said that she resides in Hyderabad when she was invited to the Film Festival.

He went on to say, “Despite being from Kannada territory, she talked so harshly about Kannada when one of our MLAs visited her home and welcomed her many times. Is it not appropriate to teach her a lesson?

You blossomed here,” the Mandya MLA said. We wonder what type of “Meer Sadiq” you are if you forget Kannada state so quickly after being given opportunity in films in other languages. You will have an obligation to pay off this land’s debt, regardless matter how large you get as a person.

“This bears reference to certain news reports alleging that Rashmika refused to attend the Bengaluru film festival and made derogatory statements about it and the state,” said a source close to the Sikandar actress, who denied all of the allegations. The aforementioned news items lack any element of reality and are wholly untrue. The whole tale of someone contacting Rashmika Mandanna and her refusal to attend the Bengaluru film festival, as well as the words ascribed to her, are untrue. This statement is being released in order to refute any misrepresentations and to document the truth.