After missing the Ranabaali trailer launch and sparking chatter online, Rashmika Mandanna will join Vijay Deverakonda and the team at Hyderabad's Shilpa Kala Vedika a day ahead of the film's October 16 release.
Rashmika Mandanna is back in the picture, literally. The actor, who sat out the recent Ranabaali trailer launch and got tongues wagging as a result, has now been confirmed for the film's pre-release event, set to happen tomorrow evening at Shilpa Kala Vedika in Hyderabad.
For a few days, her absence from the trailer event had people asking questions. Vijay Deverakonda stepped in quickly to shut down speculation, saying she had other work commitments that kept her away. That explanation seems to have held, because 123telugu.com reported she will now be very much present at the pre-release function, standing alongside Vijay and the rest of the crew.
Ranabaali is director Rahul Sankrityan's second outing with Vijay Deverakonda, following their 2018 film Taxiwaala. This time the scale is bigger. It's a pan-Indian period action drama produced by Mythri Movie Makers, with Ajay-Atul composing the music, a pairing that already has the trailer's background score doing the rounds online.
The film hits theatres on October 16, 2026, which puts the pre-release event just four days out from release. That's prime time for a push, and the team knows it. Pre-release events in Telugu cinema aren't just photo ops, they're where a film either builds momentum or quietly loses the room, and Mythri will be hoping Rashmika's presence adds the star wattage the trailer buzz needs translated into ticket sales.
The trailer itself has already made its way around social media in both Telugu and Hindi, with Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna sharing screen space for the first time in a project of this scale. Reactions have ranged from genuine interest in the period setting to the usual trailer-cut skepticism that Telugu audiences bring to every big theatrical swing, people wondering whether the film can hold its tone for two and a half hours or whether the trailer has cherry-picked its best moments.
For now, the focus shifts from trailer chatter to the event itself. Whether Rashmika addresses her absence directly on stage, or whether the team simply lets the appearance do the talking, remains to be seen. Either way, with release day four days away, Ranabaali's publicity machine is clearly not slowing down.
The next checkpoint is October 16, when the film actually opens and all this pre-release noise either converts into footfalls or doesn't.
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