Rashmika Mandanna Deepfake Video: Zara Patel, Woman in Original Clip, REACTS; Says ‘I’m Disturbed…’ – News18

A day after Rashmika Mandanna’s deepfake video went viral, the woman from the original video reacted to the morphed clip. For the unversed, the woman in the original video is Zara Patel. She is a British influencer. The original video, which was later morphed with Rashmika Mandanna’s face, was shared on October 9. Reacting to the deepfake video, Zara said she is disturb with the turn of events and urged everyone to not believe everything they see on the internet.

“Hi all, it has come to my attention that someone created a deepfake video using my body and a popular Bollywood actress’s face. I had no involvement with the deepfake video and I’m deeply disturbed and upset by what is happening. I worry about the future of women and girls who now have to fear even more about putting themselves on social media. Please take a step back and fact-check what you see on the internet. Not everything on the internet is real,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories.

On Monday, Amitabh Bachchan brought everyone’s attention to the deepfake video and demanded a legal action against it. Hours later, Rashmika issued a statement about the same. “I feel really hurt to share this and have to talk about the deepfake video of me being spread online. Something like this is honestly, extremely scary not only for me, but also for each one of us who today is vulnerable to so much harm because of how technology is being misused. Today, as a woman and as an actor, I am thankful for my family, friends and well wishers who are my protection and support system. But if this happened to me when I was in school or college, I genuinely can’t imagine how could I ever tackle this. We need to address this as a community and with urgency before more of us are affected by such identity theft,” she said.

Rashmika also thanked Amitabh Bachchan for his support.