Vijay Deverakonda, Rashmika Mandanna's 'Odd' Wedding Poster Explained by Director and Reddit
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Actors Rashmika Mandanna and Vijay Deverakonda tied the knot on February 26 in Udaipur. The makers of their upcoming film, Ranabaali, shared a new poster featuring the actors dressed in period outfits. Director Rahul Sankrityan and fans on Reddit explain why the poster isn't 'odd' but authentic.
Ranabaali is set in 1854 and 1878, and Rahul explained why Vijay and Rashmika were posed like that. 'But this wasn't designed as a poster. It was a moment. I've always been fascinated by old photographs - our parents, grandparents... the way they stood before a camera. No posing. No rehearsed smiles. No anxiety about how it would look. Just truth. Just presence,' he wrote.
He also added that the late 1800s were 'glamorous' but 'harsh, grounded, deeply rooted in soil and survival'. 'But within that world, marriages carried dignity. Weight. Permanence,' wrote Rahul, adding, 'The day Vijay and Rashmika came to set in wedding costume, something shifted. They didn't look like actors playing dress-up. They looked like they had travelled through time. It was instinct. I asked for a simple backdrop. No dramatic lighting. No stylised posing. Just stillness. And we captured it.'
Fans on Reddit also defended the poster, explaining that the expressions looked 'odd' due to longer exposure time in vintage photos. 'The ones trolling their expressions, look how similar the images are,' one user wrote, posting an old picture of a couple posing similarly.
