India, Aug. 13 -- Mothevari Love Story is a new Telugu series on Zee5 (also OTTplay Premium), that has become a talking point. Written and directed by Shiva Kumar Burra, the series has popular YouTuber Anil Geela as the main lead. As the series is trending at #1 globally on Zee5, the makers arranged a press interaction, and Anil Geela gave an emotional speech, recounting how he faced trolls in the beginning but refused to be bogged down by negativity.

Mothevari Love Story is set in the heartland of Telangana and has all local actors in lead roles. Anil revealed that when the first-look teaser was launched, he read a comment trolling him, "Are you even hero material?" which really hurt him. Now that the series has become a smash hit, Anil...