Overview
- The AAP Women’s Wing filed a complaint with the Karnataka State Commission for Women, which asked the CBFC to take appropriate action and submit an action-taken report.
- Social activist Dinesh Kallahalli lodged a separate complaint directly with the CBFC, alleging the teaser contains grossly obscene and sexually explicit material.
- CBFC sources told reporters the teaser was released exclusively online and therefore lies outside the board’s mandatory certification jurisdiction for theatrical content.
- Director Geetu Mohandas identified the woman in the teaser as Brazilian actor Beatriz Taufenbach, who has since deactivated her Instagram account following backlash.
- The teaser, released January 8, features an intimate car sequence that drew widespread attention, and the film remains slated for a March 19, 2026 theatrical release with no formal response from the makers announced.