Responding to the barrage of trolls, Anasuya said in another tweet that she would file a police complaint against those targeting her.

Flix Social Media Saturday, August 27, 2022 - 16:33
TNM Staff

A tweet by Telugu actor and leading television presenter Anasuya Bharadwaj, which was purportedly an indirect reference to actor Vijay Deverakonda, has unleashed the wrath of social media trolls on her since Friday. The tweet that translates to “If someone abuses a mother, some time or the other, it will come back” was posted along with the hashtags #NotHappyOnsomeonesSadness but #FaithRestored, and was reportedly made in the context of the lukewarm (read, disastrous) theatre response to Vijay’s latest release Liger on Thursday, August 25.

Soon after, Anasuya began to be trolled by the actor’s fans on Twitter, who resorted to ageshaming the popular anchor by repeatedly referring to her as ‘aunty’. Anasuya, meanwhile, responded in another tweet that she would file a complaint against whoever calls her ‘aunty’, denouncing the age-shaming by the trolls.

In another tweet, she wrote, “Here by..taking a screenshot of every account abusing me..age shaming me by calling “Aunty”..involving my family into this and I will file a case and take it to a point where you will regret getting to me without any legit reason..this is my final warning.. (sic)” Since then, the hashtag #aunty has appeared in about 53k tweets and has been trending on Twitter. 

This is not the first time Anasuya is becoming the target of Vijay’s fans on social media. She had previously criticised Vijay for uttering a misogynistic abuse with the term ‘mother’ in it, during the movie promotions for Arjun Reddy in 2017. Since then, the TV show host has been constantly trolled by the actor's fans. 

Anasuya earlier used to host an ETV comedy show called Jabardasth, which was known for its misogynistic content. After leaving the show, she has appeared in other special TV shows, beside acting in movies including Rangasthalam and Pushpa: The Rise.

Liger, directed by Puri Jagannadh with Ananya Panday as the leading lady, was released in both Telugu and Hindi as a pan-India project, but has been receiving disastrous word of mouth since its release.

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