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Pan-India star Rashmika Mandanna was seen participating in the latest episode of the ninth season of Indian cinema’s famous chat show ‘Koffee with Karan’ with her husband and popular actor Vijay Deverakonda. Their on-screen and off-screen chemistry won the hearts of the audience, but during the conversation, Rashmika shared a sensitive aspect of her career that she has been facing over the years. The actress, who has made a strong mark in both Hindi and South Indian cinema, told how she has been constantly taunted on social media about her accent. Rashmika very politely clarified that she never let this negativity on the internet come in the way of her work or choice of films nor did she ever let her confidence waver.
Rashmika Mandanna said during the chat show that when an artiste has to work beyond linguistic boundaries, criticisms come naturally. However, he never saw these criticisms as an obstacle, but accepted them as a challenge. In this era of social media, it is not easy for any regional artist to establish himself in Hindi cinema with his original identity, and Rashmika has traveled this entire journey with great strength and positive attitude.
Amidst this statement of Rashmika Mandanna and the ongoing debates on social media regarding her tone, veteran Indian cinema lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar has openly come forward in support of the actress. Javed Akhtar shared a scathing post on social media platform X and showed a mirror to those who made fun of Rashmika. He wrote that those who have complaints about Rashmika’s pronunciation or accent, they should read out a few lines of Tamil language as a challenge. He reminded that Tamil is one of the most ancient and rich languages of the world, and those who laugh at the pronunciation of others will not be able to speak even a single sentence of that ancient language correctly.
Taking his point forward, Javed Akhtar said that harboring a false and baseless feeling of superiority over a particular language is completely wrong and unacceptable. His statement is directly a strong message to those social media trolls who start questioning the talent of any South Indian artist due to his Hindi accent. This logical and frank response of Javed Akhtar is getting huge support from cinema lovers and intellectuals, and people are calling it a necessary step to respect linguistic diversity.
During the show, Rashmika Mandanna shared her old memories and said that ever since she entered the world of acting, she has been constantly tested and judged in some form or the other. He said that whether it was his acting skills, his style of dialogue delivery, his understanding of language or his natural accent, trolls always tried to find faults. Rashmika said in a firm voice that she never wanted to confine herself to one language, one region or a limited film industry. He had a clear vision to be a part of every cinematic industry and connect directly with the audience by communicating in different languages across the country.
This outlook of Rashmika is also clearly reflected in her recent film selection. Instead of making regional identity his weakness, he has transformed it into his biggest strength. He believes that the job of an artist is to convey emotions to the heart of the audience, and emotions are not dependent on any fixed accent or grammar. Despite being a victim of constant trolling, Rashmika never stepped back from doing new experiments.
There have been many mixed reactions on social media regarding Rashmika Mandanna’s way of speaking Hindi dialogues. Even during the blockbuster film ‘Animal’, the dialogues of some of his scenes were discussed a lot by the audience and critics. After this, when his work came out in ‘Chhaava’ based on historical background and big budget film ‘Sikander’, debates broke out on social media regarding language and diction. This sequence did not stop here, after the horror-comedy ‘Thama’ released in 2025 and ‘Cocktail 2’ released in 2026, the old debate regarding his Hindi accent was once again revived on the internet.
However, cinema experts believe that the South Indian touch in Rashmika’s dialogues is her natural quality, which gives a different freshness and realistic color to her characters. It is unrealistic to expect any non-Hindi speaking artist to completely forget his or her original identity and speak. Javed Akhtar’s latest statement has given a new direction to this entire debate, where now senior filmmakers and writers are also seen standing united in support of the artists against trolling in the name of linguistic purity.