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Telugu actor and producer Lakshmi Manchu has filed a formal complaint with the Telangana Film Chamber of Commerce (TFCC) against a senior journalist for allegedly bodyshaming and making ageist remarks about her, during a recent promotional interview for her new film Daksha: A Deadly Conspiracy . The journalist had to Lakshmi, suggesting that her dressing choices were “inappropriate” for a woman in her 40s who is also a mother.

In her statement to the TFCC, Lakshmi wrote, “India is a country that reveres women as Shakti, yet when we step into professional spaces, we are subjected to casual misogyny, humiliation, and disrespect. This cannot continue. I owe it not only to myself but to the many young women who look up to me to cal

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