Prabhas fan gets beaten up with slippers and sticks during Darling re-release screening at Hyderabad theatre

Videos from an altercation during the re-release of Prabhas and Kajal Aggarwal-starrer Darling at a Hyderabad theatre have now surfaced online.

Recently, Prabhas and Kajal Aggarwal’s 2010 hit rom-com Darling was re-released in theatres during a lull in Telugu releases. A video claimed to have been taken at a Hyderabad theatre shows a Prabhas fan getting beaten up after the show. Accounts on the internet vary about what actually happened.

A fan was beaten up badly during the re-release of Darling.

Prabhas fan beaten up at Darling re-release

Videos on the internet show a man dressed in a white shirt and jeans getting beaten up by men and women wearing blue uniforms, presumably the theatre management. The man fights back and even kicks at someone as he’s yelled at and beaten. A woman in a blue uniform can be seen yelling at him and asking him to leave, while another man in blue hits him with a stick.

Another video of the altercation shows that the woman even removed her slippers to hit the man, and the other men in blue uniforms kept punching him. Online accounts of what happened varied from the audience member asking the theatre to replay songs from the film and getting allegedly beaten up for it, to him allegedly misbehaving with a female staff member at the theatre and getting beaten up for it. Some even claimed he was intoxicated. The theatre hasn’t issued a statement about the altercation at the time of writing.

However, an X (formerly Twitter) account posted a video taken from another angle and claimed that the man getting beaten up was his friend. They claimed, “Ikada women bag lagindhi so daniki godava chesthe management motham ochi godava karraltho kottaru but baitaki anti fans misbehaving of women and spread chestunaru please share and repost this video atanu na Friend eh he's not that kind of man of misbehaving with women. (The woman snatched his bag, and he protested, so the whole management created a fuss and beat him up. Rumours are being spread that he misbehaved with women, my friend isn’t that kind of man.)”

Prabhas’ recent work

After the 2023 films Adipurush and Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire, Prabhas starred in the 2024 sci-fi film Kalki 2898 AD. The film collected over ₹1000 crore worldwide and also starred Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan and Kamal Haasan. In 2025, he played a cameo in Kannappa and provided voice-over for Mirai. This year, he starred in the horror comedy The Raja Saab, which collected over ₹200 crore

Prabhas has numerous films lined up, including the sequel to Kalki 2898 AD, which is rumoured to see Sai Pallavi replace Deepika. He also has Fauzi with Hanu Raghavapudi and Spirit with Sandeep Reddy Vanga lined up.