Overview
- Video from Saturday's Peddi music launch in Bhopal shows Ram Charan during a rapid‑fire segment calling Jasprit Bumrah a footballer and briefly misaddressing the crowd as people from Bihar.
- Clips of the exchange circulated widely across X, Instagram and other platforms, generating jokes, memes and some claims that the footage looked manipulated or AI‑generated.
- Hours after the clip trended, Charan posted on X apologising for the mistake, calling it a 'genuine human error' and saying he is 'genuinely so forgetful' with names.
- Jasprit Bumrah has not publicly responded to the apology and coverage has treated the episode as a humorous viral moment rather than a substantive controversy.
- Peddi’s star‑studded promotion continued after the incident, with reporting noting the film is scheduled for an early‑June release and the gaffe has become part of the movie’s current publicity cycle.