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The diva shared the cover photos of various magazines and wrote, ‘If the headlines were to be believed, in 1979 I had cursed myself, in 1982 I was being picked on, in 1984 I was out of sync, in 1985 I was marching towards self-destruction, and in 1998 I was shattered! There was a time that I subscribed to glossies and tabloids, but that passed very quickly’.
The actress continued, ‘I could not relate at all to the person they presented me as. The headlines would be adulatory one day and vicious the very next. There was little by way of fact checking, and no remorse for errors made. When they got the story right – it was usually a colossal breach of privacy. When they got it wrong – those blatant lies would be taken as the gospel. These ‘scandals’ took their toll. It was its own form of public humiliation, and I remember the anxiety, outrage and grief that came with these.’
Further, she added, ‘At some point my skin toughened, and the realisation dawned that it was impossible for me to challenge the persona that they wanted to create. The one time I confronted an erstwhile editor about a malicious story, she was full of excuses but not a single apology. I made up my mind then not to take it personally. Undignified as it was, their only interest was selling their magazines.’
She concluded by saying, ‘All this is just to say – people will always find reason to talk, and so it’s probably best not to allow their opinion or perception to define your life. You can do that for yourself.’
As soon as she shared the post, likes and comments poured in from all sides. While Tanuja Chandra wrote, ‘This is so important to speak about. Loved reading this’, Faraz Asif Ansari added, ‘Framing your words and sticking them right over my work desk’.
Zeenat has films like Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Qurbani, Dhund, Don, and Manoranjan to his credit.
