Without mincing words, the actress-politician said, “It is strange. I am the product of the media, but my relationship with the paparazzi is zero. Who are these people?”
Recently in an interaction that has created a storm on social media, veteran actress and politician Jaya Bachchan had some scathing remarks against the paparazzi.
Without mincing words, the actress-politician said, “It is strange. I am the product of the media, but my relationship with the paparazzi is zero. Who are these people? Are they trained to be representing the people of this country? You call them media? I come from media! My father was a journalist. I have tremendous respect for such people.”
Jaya Bachchan added, “These men outside wearing those drain pipe type pants with mobiles in their hands… they think that just because they have a mobile they can take your picture, and say what they want? And the kind of comments they pass? What kind of people are they? They are like rats.”
Will the paparazzi boycott the actress?
A member of the paparazzi said, “It’s unfortunate, what she said. Her grandson Agastya’s film Ikkis is going to release, what if the paps don’t come to cover the promotions. Amitabh ji comes outside his house every Sunday, no leading media covers it, it’s us paps. Judging someone on the basis of their appearance, people who work tirelessly day and night… she might be of the opinion that we aren’t ‘media’, but we are social media.”
Senior photographer Varinder Chawla revealed, “I have been in the business for so many years, and respected whenever the celebs said something. Ranbir Kapoor said to not pap Raha, same for Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone’s Dua.”
“But she should know- the paps which she is targeting, are they all paps, or YouTubers and fans in the mix too? Kisi ko aise bura mat boliye. I told my colleagues apni self respect rakhte hain, aur inko boycott karte hain,” added the photographer.
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