
Tabu vs Nagarjuna: King 100’s War of Words Begins With a Glimpse
Tabu’s new role in King 100 is fierce, political, and a direct challenge to Nagarjuna Akkineni. Their 28-year-old pairing returns—but not as lovers.


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King 100 releases in theatres on Thursday, 24 December 2026, in 39 days. It is a Telugu film.

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Mahanthi Jhansi Rani

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Tabu’s new role in King 100 is fierce, political, and a direct challenge to Nagarjuna Akkineni. Their 28-year-old pairing returns—but not as lovers.

Tabu’s first look in King100 dropped on her 54th birthday—sharp, silent, and loaded with menace. A 50-second glimpse, released by the makers, shows her locked in a stare-down with Nagarjuna Akkineni, their chemistry now forged not in romance but in ideological war.

Tabu steps into the spotlight in King 100, Akkineni Nagarjuna’s 100th film, as Mahanthi Jhansi Rani—a politician with a no-nonsense edge and a creed built on grit, not luck.

Nagarjuna has clarified that King 100 is currently a Telugu film and not planned as a pan-India project. He stressed that pan-India thinking creates unnecessary pressure on filmmakers, and any multilingual release will depend on the final output.

Nagarjuna’s 100th film, King 100, is set to release on December 24 — but the buzz is nowhere near the milestone it should carry.