Chiranjeevi’s Telugu film becomes the first to move court against ‘malicious ratings’

On January 13, 2026, the authoritative grip of Hyderabad-based Sithara Entertainments tweeted that it has secured “court directions to guarantee just and orderly handling of reviews and rankings connected integer platforms”, for its movie Anaganaga Oka Raju.

The movie starring Naveen Polishetty and Meenakshi Chaudhary released connected January 14 and the movie adjacent restricts users of ticketing apps from standing the film. The tweet by Sithara Entertainments further stated, “Cinema is champion judged by audiences. This measurement supports liable online engagement and ensures that irrational oregon coordinated enactment is addressed successful a suitable manner.”

This determination by the accumulation location comes connected the heels of the producers of manager Anil Ravipudi’s Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu setting specified a precedent. The movie starring Chiranjeevi and Nayanthara was the archetypal Telugu movie to attack the tribunal successful a bid to question alleviation from bot-led targeted trolling connected tickets apps and integer platforms.

Soon, the makers of 2 much Sankranti Telugu releases — Nari Nari Naduma Murari and Bhartha Mahasayulaku Wignyapthi —also followed suit.

When the quality astir Chiranjeevi’s movie moving the tribunal to get specified an bid was revealed implicit the weekend, it was appreciated by members of the Telugu movie industry. In the caller past, filmmakers and actors had stated that their films had been subjected to vicious trolling, and often managed by bots.

Actor Vijay Deverakonda was among the archetypal to instrumentality to societal media to invited the move. He stated connected X (formerly Twitter): “Happy and bittersweet to spot this — blessed to cognize hardwork, dreams and wealth of galore is protected successful a way. And bittersweet due to the fact that of the world of our ain radical causing these problems. What happened to unrecorded and fto live?”

He added that since the days of Dear Comrade, helium had been a people of organised attacks. Vijay stated that each these years, his dependable fell connected deaf ears and helium was repeatedly told that cipher tin halt a bully film. “Every shaper and manager who past makes a movie with me, soon realises the standard of the issue. I person stayed up galore nights wondering what benignant of radical bash this, and however to woody with them.”

Several filmmakers and actors person welcomed the determination of accumulation houses seeking assistance from tribunal to instrumentality connected what they word arsenic targeted, malicious ratings.

Meanwhile, this has stirred a statement connected societal media astir what constitutes malicious standing oregon reappraisal of a movie and if filmmakers tin usage this arsenic a instrumentality to besides curb just criticism.