The birthday glimpse dropped Thursday morning. By afternoon the comments section had turned into a battlefield.
Prabhas appears in a rugged avatar, cigarette in hand, against a period backdrop that screams 1940s. The visual texture is rich. The colour palette leans sepia. Hanu Raghavapudi's framing suggests a film that takes its setting seriously. Then comes the frame that lit the fuse — a portrait of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose sharing screen space with the star.
Social media did not wait. "Using national hero for Prabhas elevation" read one top comment. Another called it "cringe" to see the freedom fighter deployed as backdrop for a commercial hero shot. The cigarette drew its own brigade of critics. Some called it glorification. Others pointed out that period-accurate smoking is standard visual shorthand for a certain archetype.
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