Anasuya Bharadwaj in a new interview made shocking claims against Vijay Deverakonda. She also said that his publicist paid trolls to attack her online.
Television anchor turned actor Anasuya Bharadwaj, who was seen in Allu Arjun’s Pushpa: The Rise, has made startling revelations about Vijay Devarakonda publicist. She has alleged that he has paid trolls to abuse her. Over the last few months, Vijay’s fans and Anasuya have engaged in a war of words on social media.
Anasuya and Vijay used to be friends, in the actor’s words. In an interview, she claimed that she came to know from someone in Vijay’s team that his publicist has paid trolls to abuse her. She said she was shocked when found out about it.
“Vijay and I were friendly long back and there was no problem. When Arjun Reddy (2017) released, the cuss words were muted in the film. Vijay had visited a theatre and when the muted cuss words came on screen, he told his fans to mouth the dialogues and they were shouting these cuss words. Vijay played a character who was abusive, which is fine, but in real life, why would you encourage the audience to say such words? Being a mother, all this abusive language really upset me. In fact, I had spoken to Vijay about this, saying please don’t encourage such things in real life,” Anasuya told India Today.
She added that online abuse of women had increased post the release of Arjun Reddy. She also said she was depressed following the online abuse but she managed to move on. “In 2019, Vijay Devarakonda father was producing Meeku Mathrame Chepta and they offered me a role. Things were fine. It was after that someone from Vijay’s team told me that his publicist had paid trolls to abuse me. I was shocked. If the publicist had paid trolls, then Vijay would have been aware, right? I am sure they would not do something like this without his knowledge, right?” she added.
Last month, Anasuya took a cryptic dig at Vijay over the poster of his film Kushi. On the Kushi poster, Vijay’s name appeared as The Vijay Deverakonda (as he uses it on social media). Anasuya expressed her displeasure with the poster and wrote in Telugu, “Ippude okati chusanu.. “The” na?? Babooooiii!!! Paityam.. enchestam.. antakunda chuskundam (The? OMG. This is bile. What do we do? Make sure we don’t catch it).” Her tweet went viral and it earned the wrath of Vijay’s fans.