Jaya Bachchan’s animosity against the paparazzi is understood to all. On many events, the veteran actress has been noticed reprimanding or snapping at paparazzi for clicking photos of her with out her consent. However as a result of her “no-nonsense attitude” against paps, Jaya Bachchan has discovered a fan in her Laaga Chunari Mein Daag co-star Konkona Sen Sharma. The actress-filmmaker, in an unique interview with ETimes, detectable that she “loves” Jaya Bachchan’s “attitude when she scolds the paparazzi.” Konkana stated, “She’d (Jaya Bachchan) tell us a lot of funny stories when we used to chat. I love her attitude even today when she scolds the paparazzi. I love her no-nonsense attitude. I love the way she carries herself with so much dignity, grace and humour. She is one of the gems.”
Jaya Bachchan has ceaselessly been featured in headlines for her antipathy to media photographers. She loathes them and has additionally spread out about how a lot she “hates” the paparazzi in an episode for granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda’s podcast What The Hell Navya. “I hate it. I despise it. I despise the people who interfere in your personal life and fill their stomachs by selling those products. I hate it, I’m disgusted with such people. I always tell them, I say, ‘Aapko sharam nahi aati hai (Don’t you feel ashamed?),'” Jaya Bachchan stated when she featured along her daughter Shweta Bachchan Nanda at the podcast.
Addressing her abhorrence of the paparazzi tradition, Jaya Bachchan additionally added: “You can say, ‘She is a bad actor, a bad parliamentarian’ but you have no business sitting on the judgment of my personal character. ‘She only knows how to get angry. Angry about what? You’re intruding, interfering in my personal when I’m walking somewhere, you’re taking my picture. Why? Am I not a human being?”
Earlier this year, Jaya Bachchan was in the spotlight after she berated photographers for taking her pictures despite being told to stop. The incident happened when Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan arrived at the Indore airport. They were welcomed with bouquets but as soon as the paparazzi began flashing lights and clicking pictures of the couple, Jaya Bachchan chided: “Please don’t take my picture,” and added, “You don’t understand English?” in a sarcastic way. While moving forward, she continued: “Aise logon ko naukri se nikaal deni chahiye (such people should be fired).”
Last year too, at an event for Lakme Fashion Week, Jaya Bachchan told a paparazzo who stumbled that it “served him right”. She used to be accompanied through granddaughter Navya when, life clicking their photos, a photographer nearly fell to the grassland. To this, Jaya Bachchan stated: “Serves you right” and added, “I’m hoping you double up and fall.”
A couple of days later the Lakme Model Moment incident, some other video went viral which confirmed the veteran actress calling the paparazzi “intruders.”
Jaya Bachchan, in terms of work, will next be seen in Karan Johar’s Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani. It is headlined by Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt.
