Sandalwood seductress Rashmika Mandanna became the national crush following the sensation she created with her performance romancing Allu Arjun in Pushpa The Rise. She has lined up many high-profile projects in Bollywood. In the meantime, rumors spread that Rashmika Mandanna will be banned in Sandalwood.
The clamor for a ban on Rashmika is going on ever since she refused to take the name of her production house Paramvah Studios under which she made her debut in Sandalwood. She did so as the film was directed by Rishabh Shetty and produced by Rakshith Shetty who also played the lead role. It is known that Rashmika and Rakshith Shetty's engagement ended and their marriage did not take off.
Rishabh Shetty also refused to take Rashmika's name when he said "Samantha Ji and Sai Pallavi Ji are really great actors and don’t like this type of actor" among Samantha, Raskhmika, Sai Pallavi and Keerthy Suresh. Now people are saying that Rashmika will not lose anything even if Sandalwood bans her.
Gurthunda Seethakalam director, Naga Sekhar said he do not support the banning of any artist by the industry and added that he was unaware of the controversy. He added that many actors from his film Sanju weds Geeta became big stars and no one remembers him and that's the way industry functions.