Vijay names 50 accounts; proof remains off-screen
The Ranabaali actor says repeated posts favouring Jailer 2 were manufactured. No payment trail, account list or campaign operator has emerged.
The allegation has reached the launch stage; the supporting record has not.
Vijay Deverakonda has alleged that online hostility towards Ranabaali was manufactured, days before the film’s October 16 release alongside Jailer 2. He made the remarks at the film’s trailer launch in Hyderabad on October 8, according to two published reports.
His example was a feed filled with repeated reels urging viewers to watch Jailer 2 instead of Ranabaali. “20 to 50 accounts” could be operated by a small group, he said, while another reported version referred to 50–60 people, someone “spending money” and working “with a batch”. The wording differs, but the allegation is clear enough. The receipt is less so.
The available record does not establish who paid for anything, whether the accounts were coordinated, or whether they were linked to Jailer 2’s producers, distributors, marketing agencies or fan organisations. No account list, platform analysis, payment record, campaign brief or original reel has been published. The Jailer 2 team has not publicly answered the allegation in the material reviewed.
A separate piece of online noise has at least received a documented answer. Mythri Movie Makers said on October 4: “These reports are completely false. We have not applied for any ticket price hikes in either of the Telugu States,” and said Ranabaali would release at standard ticket prices. That statement does not prove anything about the alleged hate campaign, and tying the two stories together would be publicity dressed as investigation.
Deverakonda may be right that manufactured promotion exists. At present, he has shown readers an allegation, not the machinery behind it. In an industry that sells every rumour as a first-day record, even the campaign against the campaign needs evidence.