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MUMBAI: Arbaaz Khan, who is a well-known actor and filmmaker, says Bollywood stars are trolled as per planned campaign.
In the aftermath of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, what seemed like a conversation starter on pressures of stardom and the industry’s nepotistic ways soon snowballed into an unprecedented, vicious online trolling of Hindi film artistes. Arbaaz, whose name was also dragged into the case, opened up about the impact of online abuse that Bollywood was subjected to. The actor said that several artistes suffered not only professional but also psychological damage due to the relentless trolling.
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Arbaaz told Indian Express, “It’s a difficult place to be in mentally… This is the herd mentality like something just happens in a flow, like a trend. It’s like a wave and there’s no explanation. So, when you start getting backlash for something, you have no clue and the devastation it causes along the way, you are left asking, ‘For what?’ You are like what is this bandwagon that people have jumped onto? What happened in the last one and one-and-a half years was ridiculous.” He added, “What were they trying to achieve and who were they trying to run down? They did ruin a lot of people. The ones who could keep their necks above the water survived but if they (trolls) could help it, they would push their head down and drowned them. A lot of people have suffered psychological damage and professional damage from it and it’s unfounded. We are having trials of people in media when there are courts in the country.”
As the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) got involved into Sushant’s death case and a few names from Bollywood cropped up during the course of its investigation, several social media platforms and even mainstream news channels accused Bollywood of being a hub of drug abuse. Arbaaz said the social media trolling didn’t look organic, rather organised to bring Bollywood stars down. The actor added there was no regard for truth and the emphasis was only on abusing actors.
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CREDIT: INDIAN EXPRESS
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