Actor Lakshmi Manchu is busy promoting her upcoming film, Daksha: A Deadly Conspiracy, which will be released in theatres on 19 September. In an interview with Great Andhra, the actor blasted the reporter for constantly asking her about her dressing the way she does at 47.
She also questioned whether he would ask the same question to a male actor like Mahesh Babu.Lakshmi Manchu blasts reporterDuring the interview, the reporter commented that moving to Mumbai had somehow changed Lakshmi’s dressing.
She replied that she stayed in America before moving back to Hyderabad and now Mumbai, reasoning that she worked hard to look the way she does, and it gives her confidence to dress the way she wishes to.When the reporter persisted, commenting that she was close to 50 and the mother of a girl child, so it was a given that people would comment on her dressing, she hit back without raising her voice and said, “Would you ask a man the same question?
How dare you! How dare you ask me that question? Would you say, Mahesh Babu, you are 50 now, why are you going shirtless? Then how do you ask a woman the same thing? People learn from what you have asked me here today. As a journalist, be more responsible in the position you take.”The reporter…
Published: September 16, 2025 9:58 am
Source: Hindustan Times — Read original