Overview
- A Hyderabad-based actress lodged a formal complaint with Banjara Hills police accusing a casting director identified as Prasad of cheating, harassment, forced confinement and death threats.
- The complainant says she worked on the Telugu film Aakasamlo Oka Tara between October and December 2025 and that promised pay of ₹90,000 plus ₹38,000 in travel reimbursement was repeatedly delayed.
- She alleges that when she went to seek payment the casting director forced her into his car, misbehaved and offered better roles in exchange for compliance before she escaped.
- The complaint states that Prasad later used abusive language with the actress's mother, boasted of similar conduct and threatened to kill them, according to the police-backed filing.
- Banjara Hills Police registered a case under Sections 75, 79 and 351(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and assigned SI K Vijay to investigate, with no arrests reported so far.