Sonakshi Sinha

Sonakshi Sinha (born 1987) is one of Bollywood’s most prominent actresses, breaking out opposite Salman Khan in the blockbuster Dabangg (2010) and building a career across the Dabangg franchise, Lootera, and the acclaimed crime series Dahaad. In 2026 she became a landmark litigant in India’s fight over AI impersonation.

Sinha v. Character Technologies

In March 2026, Sinha filed suit in the Delhi High Court — Sonakshi Sinha v. Character Technologies Inc & Ors. — against seventeen defendants including Character.AI, whose platform hosted for-profit chatbots impersonating her, some generating obscene content or depicting her in fabricated, sexualized imagery, alongside e-commerce sellers hawking AI-generated merchandise implying her endorsement.

On March 20, 2026, Justice Jyoti Singh granted an ex parte ad interim injunction: defendants must stop using Sinha’s name, voice, image, likeness, or speaking style in any form — deepfakes, voice-cloned audio, even metaverse environments — and take down infringing URLs within 36 hours. The court held that unauthorized exploitation of a celebrity’s attributes injures both commercial interests and personal dignity, extending a line of Delhi High Court personality-rights rulings that began with Anil Kapoor’s 2023 victory.

The case made Sinha one of the first Indian actresses to haul a major American AI company into court over impersonation, and a reference point for how quickly Indian courts will now move against synthetic likeness abuse.