“I am a girl first… then I’m a celebrity.” Taapsee Pannu opened up about her love-hate relationship with the paparazzi.
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00:00I'm a public figure, not public property.
00:02If you jump on me and pounce on me and physically come too close to me,
00:07that's not acceptable.
00:08I'm not a people's pleaser.
00:09I'm helping them have clickbaits.
00:12You know, they will poke me.
00:13I will react like a normal human being.
00:15It will work for their pages.
00:17Why are you scolding me? What did I do wrong?
00:24The spouses get a lot of trolling.
00:26You've seen what happened with Anushka.
00:29You know, at one point of time,
00:31like every time she was like,
00:32she's a prostitute for Virat.
00:35So was that also playing in your back?
00:36No, no.
00:37I think I've chosen a life which unfortunately I got to know very late
00:42that whether you do something or not, you're a troll.
00:47So I think this trolling has come in all of our lives lately.
00:52And I feel that I'm relevant.
00:54That's why I'm being trolled.
00:55If I wasn't relevant,
00:56then why would anybody spend time bother about
01:03People are spending time and negativity on you.
01:06I would be like, OK, I'm worth their time in some way.
01:09Unfortunately, a few videos of my wedding got leaked a few weeks later
01:15and you should see the kind of comments underneath it.
01:18Why are you reading it, Tatsy?
01:19No, it was just like when they pop,
01:22when you select it, sometimes the top few comments start coming up.
01:25Automatically.
01:26So you end up like seeing it and you and I'm like, you know,
01:29and that actually validated my belief that I should not be putting out
01:32my personal life because the kind of things that they were writing there.
01:36Oh, what is this? She's overacting at her wedding.
01:38Why is she like not covering her head?
01:41Why is she?
01:42The kind of scrutiny and the liberty
01:47the people take to comment on what I should be doing in my personal life
01:51is not what I'm OK with.
01:53In the olden days, there was star dust, star and style.
01:56You know, the critics in that, they could make or break careers.
02:00In today's trolling, I don't think they can break a career.
02:03No, they cannot. No, they cannot.
02:05Otherwise, I wouldn't be here.
02:08I swear, because I have a very clear logic of the fact
02:13that I'm a public figure, not public property.
02:16There's a very, very big difference between the two.
02:18You give respect, you take respect.
02:20If you shout at me, I will not take it.
02:23If you jump on me and pounce on me and physically come too close to me,
02:28that's not acceptable.
02:29This is the chutney in you speaking.
02:30Yeah. You know, how is a person behind the camera?
02:34Uska no is a no.
02:37How my no is not a no.
02:39How does it make sense?
02:41A girl behind the camera saying, you're coming too close.
02:43Please don't get away. I'm not liking this is OK.
02:46Yeah, it's her right.
02:47But just because I'm on this side of the camera,
02:49me not liking someone shouting at me or coming too close to me is not OK.
02:54I'm a girl first or a human being first.
02:56And then I'm a celebrity.
02:58I am not a people's pleaser.
03:00I'm not. And, you know, I think people,
03:04they need to run their house, right?
03:05They need to run their pages. And negativity sells.
03:08Why will anybody click on your page if you say she's such a nice person?
03:13She's so sweet. Nobody's interested.
03:16Only if you write, she said something very nasty.
03:19Oh, she got angry. Oh, she shouted.
03:22Then it's exciting.
03:22What did she say? What did she do?
03:24You know, that's exciting.
03:25So every time I meet someone, it's like, you know, you don't seem like this.
03:29It's because I'm helping them have clickbaits.
03:33Why will they come and capture me every time if I'm disrespecting them?
03:38Why will they come and stand there and even ask for a picture for me
03:43if I'm being rude or wrong, doing wrong to them?
03:46They also are standing there because they know they will poke me.
03:49I will react like a normal human being.
03:51It will work for their pages.
03:53So this is how the system works.