Actor Sunainaa, who works in Telugu and Tamil cinema, has publicly denounced an obscene video made with AI that uses her likeness and has been spreading across social media and other platforms. She posted a statement on Instagram demanding its immediate removal; Outlook reported it on 27 October 2026 and Deccan Chronicle followed a day later.
“This is a gross violation of my dignity, my privacy and my identity.”
Sunainaa, actor, in a statement on Instagram · outlookindia.com ↗
She says her face was morphed onto explicit material and that she never consented to, or authorised, its creation, publication or circulation. She calls it sexual harassment and a criminal offence under India's Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and says any suggestion that she is linked to the clip is false.
Her message to the public is blunt: stop making, uploading, sharing, forwarding or reposting the video or any variation of it, and delete it from every platform, account, group and device. Anyone who passes it on, she warns, will be held liable too. She asks fans to report the clip when they see it rather than share it, and urges platforms and accounts carrying it to take it down at once.
A portrait of the actor in a saree, used as the lead picture of Deccan Chronicle's report
Image: Deccan Chronicle
She says she will begin criminal and civil proceedings, without further notice, against everyone who created, published or circulated it. Neither outlet names who made the video or says a complaint or court filing exists, and no court or date is given.
About Sunainaa
Sunainaa (Sunaina Yella) was born on 17 April 1989 in Nagpur and raised there and later in Hyderabad. She is an Indian actress and model who mainly works in Tamil and Telugu films.
She first appeared on screen in the Telugu film Kumar Vs Kumari in 2005 and had her first Telugu breakthrough with 10th Class in 2006. She rose to fame with her Tamil debut Kadhalil Vizhunthen in 2008 and earned a Filmfare Best Actress (Tamil) nomination for Neerparavai in 2012. She returned to Telugu films with Raja Raja Chora in 2021 and appeared in Amazon Prime Video's series Inspector Rishi, released in 2024.
Outlook places the episode among similar complaints in Indian film: Janhvi Kapoor and Jr NTR raised concerns over an obscene AI-morphed version of their Devara song Chuttamalle, and Rashmika Mandanna and Keerthy Suresh have also spoken out against misuse of the technology.
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