Vismaya Mohanlal, other Malayalam actors face cyberattack over support to Jantar Mantar protests
Malayalam film actors including Vismaya Mohanlal, Tovino Thomas, Parvathy Thiruvothu, and Ranjini Haridas have been subjected to intense cyberattacks and abusive social media comments after publicly supporting the anti-government student protests at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.

Through the Reader lens — Several prominent Malayalam film actors, including Vismaya Mohanlal, Tovino Thomas, Parvathy Thiruvothu, and Ranjini Haridas, publicly expressed support for the ongoing anti-government student protests at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Immediately after their statements, each faced a surge of coordinated cyberattacks and abusive comments on social media, documented by The Hindu and The Hindu (Kerala). The abuse is being described as organized rather than organic, suggesting coordinated targeting linked to the political sensitivity of their stance. Coverage from both outlets centers the harassment itself rather than the protest's substance, framing the incident as a test of speech and online safety for public figures who back dissent. What remains unclear is whether the attackers are affiliated with any political group or are an ad hoc online mob, and how — or whether — platforms will intervene. Watch for statements from the Malayalam film fraternity's representative bodies, any police complaints filed, and platform-level moderation action.
What to watch next
- Filing of police complaints or cyber-cell reports by affected actors
- Statements from AMMA or other Malayalam film industry bodies
- Platform responses: takedowns, account restrictions, safety mode deployments
- Any pivot of the harassment toward the protest narrative itself
