People are genuinely furious right now. Ram Charan is a massive star. His fan base is fiercely loyal. They usually defend him against everything. But his latest movie has completely fractured that loyalty. The movie is called Peddi. It came out on June 4. Buchi Babu Sana directed it. It is a sports drama set in a rural village. The box office numbers look great on paper. It crossed 300 crore rupees globally in a matter of days. You would think everyone in his camp is celebrating. They are not. The hardcore fans are actually turning their backs on the project. And they have some very solid reasons.
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It feels a bit wild watching this happen in real time. Normally, when you are putting together posters and managing visual assets for daily updates at Legal Maestros, you see how carefully public figures try to protect their image. They control every single narrative to the best of their ability. But Ram Charan completely misread the room this time. The anger is raw. It is organic. It is spilling all over social media and it refuses to slow down.
The Problem With The Female Lead
The biggest reason for the hate revolves entirely around Janhvi Kapoor. She plays the character Achiyyamma. People naturally expected a strong role for her. Instead, they got something that felt completely outdated and offensive. The movie aggressively reduces her to an object. There are long, drawn-out scenes where the camera just lingers on her body while Ram Charan’s character talks about her face. It made viewers incredibly uncomfortable in the theaters. Another scene shows her getting undressed in public by local goons. The male characters around her just laugh or lust after her instead of acting like normal human beings. It is gross.
Audiences are simply not putting up with this kind of writing anymore. We are living in an era where awareness is spreading fast. Look at local initiatives like the Transformative Tuesdays legal awareness campaign organized by the Rajasthan State Legal Services Authority. Communities are actively learning about their rights and demanding basic dignity. You cannot just slap scenes of blatant objectification into a big 2026 blockbuster and expect people to ignore it. The fans did not ignore it. They called it out immediately. They felt the writing was cringe, degrading, and a massive step backward for the industry.
Where Is The Accountability
Fans are angry at the director. The backlash got so bad that Buchi Babu Sana eventually had to issue a public apology on X. He claimed he respects women and agreed to edit the movie. A completely new, sanitized version was rushed out to theaters. But the fans are actually even angrier at Ram Charan. They want to know why he agreed to shoot those specific scenes in the first place. He is the hero. He has the absolute power on set to say no to a bad script. But he did not do that.
People on the internet started questioning his loud silence. Some pointed out the glaring hypocrisy. When female actors do intimate scenes, they get massive hate online. But when a massive male star acts in a movie that treats a woman like a piece of meat, he just hides behind his PR team. The backlash got so loud that people started trending hashtags against him. Fans were disgusted that his character aggressively pursued the girl when she clearly was not interested, and even kissed her without any consent. It brings up a lot of dark realities. When tracking Supreme Court judgments or compiling case laws for a book on the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, you realize exactly how normalized harassment used to be in our society. Fans are refusing to let that normalization slide on the big screen anymore. He went to watch the movie at Prasads Multiplex in Hyderabad recently with the director. People saw that appearance as him ignoring the valid complaints and just celebrating the ticket sales.
Insulting The Classics
Then the actor made things so much worse with his own words. The team held a big success meet in Hyderabad to celebrate the box office numbers. He grabbed the microphone and made a huge, unbelievable claim. He told the crowd that the audience reactions were so incredibly good that Peddi would easily rank as the first or second best movie in his entire career library. That single statement completely set off the internet.
His long-time fans felt deeply insulted. They practically worshipped his past work with legendary directors like SS Rajamouli and Sukumar. Movies like RRR, Magadheera, and Rangasthalam are undisputed cinema classics. To compare this highly controversial sports drama to those absolute masterpieces felt like a massive slap in the face to everyone involved. Fans quickly called it the peak of shamelessness. They flooded social media asking if he had completely lost his mind. He practically erased his biggest artistic achievements just to hype up a movie that was actively getting shredded for its terrible writing. You simply do not disrespect the visionary directors who built the foundation of your career.
The Strange Casting Gamble
There is also a genuinely weird situation happening with the music. A big commercial south Indian movie usually requires a massive special song. You expect a certain level of magic. Just like we saw fans losing their minds over the incredible IPL cricket records broken this season or the massive hype building around the upcoming film ‘King’, Ram Charan’s core audience lives and breathes cinema. They want a high-octane spectacle. You expect someone like Samantha or Pooja Hegde to show up and match his crazy dance energy step for step. A. R. Rahman composed the music. The expectations were sky high. But the makers made a bizarre choice.
Reports leaked that they hired Samyuktha for the special track. She is a phenomenal actress. She proved her incredible talent in movies like Virupaksha. But she is known for serious, performance-heavy roles. She has never done a huge commercial dance number in her life. Fans are super skeptical. It feels like a total mismatch of energy. They want an explosive visual treat. They do not think this pairing will work at all. It is just another strange, jarring decision in a movie already full of them. The hardcore supporters are finally tired of defending him. That is exactly why they are walking away.
