What Ananya Panday hates about paparazzi culture

Brut India

Ananya Panday talks about navigating the paparazzi, her social media posts and regularly warding off “nazar”.

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00:00When I was leaving the gym recently,

00:02they were like,

00:02Oh, look, she's so sad.

00:04We broke up.

00:05And I'm like, firstly, you lift 170 kgs

00:08and do deadlifts.

00:09Then we'll see everyone sad at the gym, dude.

00:13Where you at in the social media stuff?

00:15What do you post? Do you not post?

00:16A lot.

00:17What?

00:17Like your life.

00:19I post. I post.

00:20You post a lot?

00:21Yeah. Not a lot.

00:22Like I think now I have phases.

00:24Would you like upload stuff like on Facebook

00:26and VBM and f*** was going down.

00:29I would make my DP black.

00:31Like if I was having a fight,

00:32make a dot as my status.

00:33Yeah.

00:34I would do that.

00:35Right? Did you unlock that?

00:36You take your WhatsApp DP off

00:37when you're fighting?

00:38Now I don't because my picture's damn nice.

00:39But like I used to.

00:40It's okay.

00:41When do you do it?

00:42Like if you're fighting with someone

00:43or you're sad about something,

00:45then just make your DP like black.

00:46Then everyone will ask you what happened.

00:48Oh.

00:49And then you'll be like,

00:50nothing, whatever.

00:51Nothing, yeah.

00:52Yeah.

00:53There must be s*** that you don't want to post online

00:55because of like,

00:56you've decided not to.

00:57But like your life has this thing

00:59that's different from most of us,

01:01which is paps.

01:02How do you deal with that?

01:03I mean, honestly, like,

01:05I'm fine with them,

01:07but I don't like that

01:08peeche dekho and like turn around.

01:10I hate those.

01:11Like you know when they come from like behind angles

01:13and then they're like guess who,

01:14guess who and all of that stuff.

01:16It's like...

01:19And I can take all these.

01:20It's really not nice.

01:22Right.

01:22Yeah.

01:22So you guess their name

01:23and they don't really care.

01:24They just got their shot.

01:25Yeah.

01:25I just don't like the peeche dekho.

01:27Otherwise, I'm fine.

01:28And it's got to be weird, right?

01:29Because when you know that you're on camera,

01:30if you are having a bad day,

01:32you're like f***ing the s***.

01:33But you can't because you're going to be papped.

01:35I mean, I honestly just like

01:37have the bad day.

01:38Like I don't really...

01:39Like when I was leaving the gym recently,

01:41they were like,

01:42oh, look, she's so sad.

01:43Like, you know, she must...

01:44This must have happened in her life.

01:46Breakup ho gaye.

01:46And I'm like, firstly,

01:47you lift 170 kgs

01:49and do deadlifts.

01:50Then we see everyone sad at the gym, dude.

01:52Like who's not sad?

01:53And they're like, no, breakup hai.

01:55Toh pakka iske liye sad hai.

01:56And I'm like,

01:57you just came out of the gym?

01:58I'm exhausted.

01:59Give me a minute.

02:01Because I don't like when they read into my moods.

02:03Oh, because people...

02:03Like my face is always like...

02:05You know, when they think like I'm...

02:07I mean something.

02:07Your face is always like what?

02:08Can you make the face?

02:09Yeah.

02:11Like it's literally this all the time.

02:12They think it means something

02:13but it means nothing.

02:14Like I do everything

02:15and I post everything

02:16but then I take out my nazar

02:17every like week.

02:18Every week you take out?

02:19You take it out?

02:20Yeah.

02:20My...

02:21Like help in my house

02:22like does the mirchi thing.

02:24You know the mirchi thing?

02:26You all know the mirchi thing, na?

02:27Yeah, yeah.

02:28So then like if it smells a lot

02:30that means you have nazar.

02:31Like if the mirchi burns a lot

02:32then you have nazar.

02:33Okay.

02:33I don't know the science behind it

02:35but it's...

02:35Yeah, it's legit.

02:36Yeah.

02:37It's legit.

02:38You guys believe in nazar?

02:38Do you guys...

02:39Yeah, my mom put two black dots

02:40behind my ear before I came today.

02:42Before coming for this show?

02:43Yeah.

02:44Because everyone thinks I don't like shower

02:45and I have like something dirty behind my ear.

02:47My mom just keeps putting it again and again.

02:50Do you believe in it though?

02:51Yeah.

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