When Rashmika Mandanna spoke about trolls and how she coped with them.
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00:00To one point, I was body shamed and then they were talking about my personality, my character, my family.
00:17It's ridiculous what happens today and I just feel that you know I spoke to Ananya also in
00:24the last season and her episode was on social media bullying. It is a bullying.
00:28Today if I post a video they'll say you talk like a girl, you are this, you are that.
00:33They go to any extent to name shame and call me out whatever. What I feel is that at a younger
00:38age when it happens to you, you are very young when the trolling started. Today you might be
00:44having that guard and that defense to give it back or to handle it. Do you remember the first
00:49time when it happened? Did it break you down? Naturally, it hit me like a bloody tsunami.
00:55I didn't see it coming. I didn't even know what trolling was. I wasn't even aware of it and I was
01:00this girl who had like some 100-200 followers and I was following some 400-500 people.
01:10But I think to one point, I was body shamed and then they were talking about my personality,
01:17my character, my family, my school, my upbringing and all of that.
01:24I remember all of this happening and the first time it happened I was like but why is there so
01:29much negativity and the thing is when people are trolling you, you feel like the whole world is
01:34trolling you. It's just that you know one two percent of the whole audience that you have
01:39but it was just such a new concept that actually I started losing myself into all of this. I started
01:47shelving myself into you know I don't want to be seen. I don't like I want to behave this way. I
01:52want to talk this way and oh my god it was bad. I remember but I think like again we humans tend
02:01to adapt to all of this like we're survivors in the end of the day. All my friends and family
02:07call me a survivor because they know all of the that I've been through but I've never lost a
02:13smile on my face. Yeah, exactly. Like I just like somehow every time I speak to someone in a public
02:20space or some like even I don't know I just can't like I just want to smile. I just want to make
02:27another person smile. I think that's what I live by and all the negativity and all of that well it
02:34was hard. I'm getting goosebumps because I'm starting to go back there. No but you know it is
02:39it is true because I have also battled it. I have battled it at a very young age 12 when I was bullied
02:44and then you know people say that I have told this so many times that at one place you hit as much as you can
02:48but that place becomes dull after a point and then it stops affecting you. True. In the beginning
02:53they people make you feel like like you said it hits you like a noise and then you feel like
02:57maybe they're right. You start judging yourself and self-doubting. Did you go through that? Yeah oh my god
03:04I was like am I not good enough? Should I give up on the industry? Should I stop acting? Should I not
03:09do films? Should I do something? Should I cut my hair? Should I become lean? Should I become fat?
03:15What do they want and no matter what I did nothing was convincing just because I probably took
03:23out a name in an interview or some I got one word wrong in a language or I don't speak in a certain
03:30language or I don't you know behave a certain way someone wants me to. I'm like dude like this is
03:39just impossible to freaking convince everybody so I was like you know what you don't like me fine
03:46deal with it I'm just want to be me. You know even today of course I can't lie it does affect me
03:51some things when you know when they talk about my upbringing when they talk about my family I give
03:57it back like anything keep it to me like my parents my sister my they didn't do it you know
04:04they're just my family okay fine leave them out of it like do to me to my name do whatever you want
04:12and that's when I lose it that's one time I'm actually not smiling I give it back.