Politically motivated attacks on Film Celebrities became a common these days. Like we have a politicians filing cases on celebs in the pretext that they used a Padma award as a title prefixed before their name.

Veteran actor Kota Srinivasa Rao was recently conferred with Padmasri award and the award's name is being published in credit titles of various movies now. Recent release Tungabhadra too contained the word Padmasri before Kota's name. According to Constitution, Padma award should not be used as a title by any given recipients of the award. In Mohan Babu and Brahhamanandam's case, a BJP politician approached court seeking Indian government to take back the award given. HC has however order to remove the 'Padma Sri' title in film's title but warned the actors to not repeat it. Will these politicians now attack Kota too? As BJP rules over Centre and Kota happens to be their own former MLA, it may not happen.

With sincere respect to awards, icons like Mohan Babu, Kota and Brahmi have built their credentials over decades with their good work and these awards are not scale for their talent and popularity.