"Don't collab with disloyal people": RCB trolled over collaboration with Rashmika Mandanna for ad promotions
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Rashmika Mandanna is one of the biggest celebrities who is very active on social media and at the same time, she has also been trolled for her controversial statements, especially by Kannadigas. In yet another such instance, the actress who rose due to the Kannada movie 'Kirik Party', was part of a promotional advertisement for Royal Challengers Bangalore's much-awaited "RCB Unbox Event" that is slated to take place on March 19.
There have been several franchise's promotional ads featuring mega Kannada stars including Shiva Rajkumar, Kiccha Sudeep suggested that at the unboxing event, the RCB team is set to change the name of Royal Challengers Bangalore to Royal Challengers Bengaluru. In the series of ads, the RCB added another actor to the ads, actress Rashmika Mandanna was also featured in the promotional advertisement.
However, this collaboration of RCB and Rashmika Mandanna did not go down well with Kannada fans. They trolled the actress for being part of the ads for RCB. Here are some of the reactions of the netizens
The actress had received massive backlash for her controversial statements in an interview. While talking to the host of Curly Tales YouTube channel, Rashmika made the sign of air quotes, instead of saying the name of the production house that offered her first film. “I took part in this thing called ‘Fresh Face’, I said okay for the competition because one of the teachers asked me to. I ended up getting the title. After they put my name and photo on the front page of the Times of India back then, I was getting back to my normal life when I suddenly got a call from this (makes the sign of air quotes) production house. And I didn’t believe it, I thought it was a prank call,” Rashmika recalled. The way Rashmika avoided taking the names of those behind her first film garnered a lot of criticism on the internet.
In a separate incident, Kannada movie star Rishab Shetty had dismissed a question about working with Rashmika Mandanna. In an interview, Rishab was asked to pick an actor among Rashmika, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Keerthy Suresh and Sai Pallavi — he would like to work in his film. Without naming names, Rishab made no bones about his bitter feelings towards Rashmika. “I don’t like such (makes the sign of air quotes) types of actor. But, I like the work of Sai Pallavi ji and Samantha ji very much,” said the Kantara star during a recent video interview with Gulte.com a sly dig at Rashmika Mandanna