Vijay Deverakonda: 90% of Ranabaali Trolls Are Manufactured
Vijay Deverakonda says most of the negativity around Ranabaali is coordinated, not fan opinion, as the film heads into a Jailer 2 clash.
Vijay Deverakonda has a clear message for the accounts flooding his social feeds with negativity around Ranabaali: he sees the pattern, and he is not changing for it. The actor spoke in Hyderabad ahead of the film’s trailer launch, and his comments arrive as the period drama walks into one of the most crowded box office weekends of the season.
What Vijay said in Hyderabad
Vijay framed the criticism as a series of questions. Should he stop because someone thinks his dreams are unnecessary? Should he act differently because his honesty reads as arrogance? His answer was firm. “I won’t change; they’re the ones who need to,” he said, adding that people would do better focusing on their own families and their own success stories.
Vijay has made it clear he won’t tone down his self-confidence to please trolls. To him, that confidence is not a flaw to be corrected by a trending opinion; it is part of the work ethic that got him here.
The 90 percent claim
When talk turned to the Ranabaali vs Jailer 2 conversation, Vijay didn’t describe it as a routine fan war. He called most of it artificial. “90 percent of it is manufactured,” he said, pointing to a batch of accounts that drops Reels at a specific moment to say they would rather watch Jailer 2 than a Telugu film.
His larger point is about pattern recognition. One negative opinion is normal, but the same opinion appearing everywhere at once should raise questions. He also warned that the attacks people are paid for today will be done by AI tomorrow, and the only reliable way to stop that is to stop paying for it in the first place.
Why this matters for the October clash
Ranabaali, directed by Rahul Sankrityan and co-starring Rashmika Mandanna, releases on October 16, 2026. Jailer 2, directed by Nelson Dilipkumar, opens a day earlier on October 15. With two big films so close, social timelines will be noisy, and fans can easily mistake coordinated campaigns for popular opinion.
In entertainment marketing, manufactured hate is a form of coordinated inauthentic behaviour: paid or organized posts designed to make a fringe opinion look like the majority. It works because volume can distort perception, especially in the days before a trailer or a release. Vijay is asking fans to notice that volume and question its source.
What fans can actually do
- Judge the official trailer, not a hashtag. Wait for Ranabaali’s actual footage before making up your mind.
- Spot the pattern, then scroll past. If many accounts post identical takes at once, engaging only amplifies them.
- Support films with tickets, not pile-ons. Your attention is the strongest signal you can send.
There is a difference between holding a film accountable and amplifying a paid pattern. Vijay is asking fans to notice that difference, and it is a useful habit for anyone who spends time on film Twitter or Instagram in a release week.
The more useful response to this clash is simple: keep the focus on the work, decide for yourself, and let the loudest voice in the room be the film itself.
Source: PINKVILLA
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