Pooja Hegde's fans furious on Samantha Akkineni after an alleged chat of the latter surfaces online

The on-going Twitter battle between the ardent fans of Samantha Akkineni and Pooja Hegde is continuing to intensify. On the wee hours of Thursday, Pooja took to Twitter and claimed that their Instagram account has been hacked. Though it was retrieved within an hour, the damage has already been done as unflattering memes about Samantha emerged on her Instagram story. Sharing a screenshot from ‘Majili’, the cyberpunk who hacked Pooja’s account captioned the meme as “I don't find her pretty at all.”

This whole scenario has triggered Samantha’s fans and prompted them to start the hashtag #PoojaMustApologizeSamantha on Twitter. However, in a surprise turnaround of events, screenshots of the alleged chat between Samantha, Chinmayi Sripada and director Nandini Reddy on Instagram surfaced online. While the trio had casual conservation with sarcastic comments on hacking, Pooja Hegde’s fans felt that they have cornered their favourite actress and began to trend the hashtag #WeSupportPoojaHegde on Twitter.

While social media wars between fans are not new in Telugu cinema, it’s very rare for actresses’ to headline them. Meanwhile, on Thursday, Chinmayi and Nandini Reddy took to their respective social handles and praised Samantha for her professional and philanthropic work.

While Pooja Hegde is romancing Prabhas in Jaan and Akhil Akkineni in Most Eligible Bachelor, Samantha has recently signed Vignesh Shivan’s Kaathu Vaakula Rendu Kadhal featuring Vijay Sethupathi and Nayanthara. She is also playing the titular role in Ashwin Saravanan's horror-thriller.