The actor upon sharing the statement about the viral news, he also shared a screenshots of email from the social media giant dated 20th December 2022. 

He played the role of upright forest officer Muralidhar in the recent sensational hit Kannada film Kantara, where the film won an whopping response, and made a good box office run.

Because the theatre business is always changing and movies have a rocky history, it's a bit of a remarkable feat that the state of movies in the South is as stable

This year, according to Rajamouli, the South Indian film industry thrived because the same situation did not exist in the South.

The film was released on September 30, 2022, and it quickly became the highest-grossing Kannada film of 2022.

The movie was an enormous financial success, becoming the second-highest-grossing Kannada movie of all time and the second-highest-grossing Kannada movie of 2022. 

Following the film's popularity and box office hit in Kannada, the producers announced that it would be dubbed in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam. The movie was released on October 14 (Hindi) and October 15 (Telugu & Tamil).