Overview
- Posting on X on Dec 28–29, Ram Gopal Varma praised Nidhhi Agerwal, Malavika Mohanan and Riddhi Kumar for “wearing exactly what they want” at The Raja Saab event.
- He shared a Prabhas-clicked selfie with the three co-stars and wrote that they ignored Sivaji’s “moral barkings,” calling the women “heroes.”
- Sivaji had urged heroines to avoid revealing outfits at a Dhandoraa event, using offensive terms that were widely condemned as misogynistic.
- After online backlash, Sivaji apologized for his language in a video and issued a written apology to the Telangana Women’s Commission.
- The dispute has intensified discussion in Telugu cinema about moral policing and victim-blaming, with Nidhhi Agerwal earlier rejecting victim-blaming in a social post.