Manya Anand, a Tamil television actor, has sparked a major conversation in the South Indian entertainment industry after she publicly spoke about how she was approached for an ‘adjustment’.
Manya accused Dhanush’s manager Sreyas of casting couch exploitation. This was reported on 18th November, 2025. According to recent reports, Manya herself said that she does not know if it’s fake or real.
However, her statements have become a part of online discussions of whether the person was actually Sreyas or officially linked to Dhanush.
The Allegations
In an interview with Cineulagam, a media outlet that frequently features Tamil television and cinema artists, she said that she was contacted by someone, who she named as “Dhanush’s manager” regarding a film project.
According to the reports she said that he told her that there is “a commitment”. She then questioned what “commitment” to which he further pushed it and she refused. After that he said “You will not comply even if it’s Dhanush sir?”
Manya told the media that even after she refused the proposition, Sreyas continued contacting her multiple times.
He had even sent her the location of Dhanush’s production company, Wunderbar Fims after forwarding a script. She said that she never took a look at the script.
Manya claimed that this was not the first time that the case had occurred. Another manager also approached her with a similar ‘adjustment’ request for the same project. She pointed that such demands show a disturbing pattern in the industry where rising artists are threatened to do such things.
She stated that “We are artists, you take work from us, but don’t expect something else in return.” She further added that “If we comply with your demands then we’d be named something else.”
So far neither Dhanush nor Sreyas has issued any public statement in response to Manya’s allegations. Some media reports even raise the question of whether the person contacting Manya was really Sreyas or just an impersonator.
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According to the past reports, Sreyas’s statement has resurfaced in which he claims that fake calls are being made in his name and he even warned people that casting calls via phone number +917598756841 was not his. There are prior concern about the fraudulent use of his identity.
The allegations are colliding with the timings of Dhanush’s upcoming film Tere Ishk Mein, which is set to release on 28 November 2025.
Written by Supriya