Director Rahul Ravindran has hit back at online trolls after his 2025 film The Girlfriend, starring Rashmika Mandanna and Dheekshith Shetty, came under renewed scrutiny following the recent Ketan Agarwal-Siya Goyal case. Social media users questioned why he chose to make a film about a woman’s experiences instead of highlighting crimes against men. The criticism soon extended to Rahul’s wife, singer Chinmayi Sripaada, after she defended him on X (formerly Twitter). As the debate escalated, Rahul issued a series of posts responding to the backlash and defending both his film and his wife. The controversy began after an X user shared a still from The Girlfriend alongside an AI-generated image depicting Siya allegedly pushing Ketan off a cliff while her reported boyfriend, Chetan Chaudhary, stood behind her. The user wrote, “They show this, to hide this,” before adding, “Bro @23_rahulr please do one movie on atrocities of women on men.” Rahul responded by drawing a distinction between crimes committed by individuals and systemic issues faced by women. “But I don’t see atrocities of ‘women’ on …