Taapsee Pannu has a message for trolls

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“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.

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