Rukmini Vasanth has found support from fans after facing online trolling and moral policing over her role in Yash and Geetu Mohandas’ Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups. The film, which released in theatres on Wednesday, has received a mixed response, but a section of social media users specifically targeted Rukmini over an intimate sequence involving her character.

Rukmini plays Mellisa in the gangster drama and enters the story later than the other female characters. Her character initially approaches Yash’s Raya with an intention to harm him, but their equation eventually develops into a romantic relationship. The intimacy between the two characters is largely implied rather than explicitly shown, and the story later establishes that they have a child together.