A video of Janhvi Kapoor recently went viral on the internet where she was seen requesting the paparazzi, “Aap na galat galat angles mat lena”. Next day, the pictures of her curvaceous back were flashed all over social media anyway. Nora Fatehi too had lashed out at paps for zooming in on her body but remains “unfazed” as she said she can’t school each and every pap on how not to click her or other celebrities.
After Alia Bhatt voiced her concerns after certain members of the paparazzi intruded her privacy, the focus is back on the paps as celebrities speak up against their behaviour while chasing a female celebrity for pictures. Janhvi, who is promoting her upcoming film Mr & Mrs Mahi, shares a warm rapport with paps, but is now starting to feel conscious of how she’s being clicked. The actress also told indianexpress.com that lately she’s been feeling “not so confident” because she is being clicked from ‘wrong angles’. According to the actor, while not all photographers do this, some are incentivised to click pictures in a certain way for clickbait.
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Janhvi Kapoor: ‘Don’t take photos from wrong angles’
The actor said a lot of the paps are very respectful of her and other actors, and respect boundaries. “But some of them have also been incentivised to do these things. Like they’ll take a normal video of you but in the cover photo they’ll use the picture with the wrong angle, the ones that look the most sensational because it is clickbait, especially when it is a woman. That’s when you feel not most comfortable.
“I can’t even walk confidently because there is a constant commentary going on in my head that ‘bachke rehna galat angle aa sakta hai (be cautious you are being clicked from wrong angles)’. It’s sad, unfortunate, and I hope better sense prevails. It’s not respectful,” she said.
Janhvi also shared a personal experience where some paps would ask her to say bye and capture a video or click photos of her from behind. She says, “There was a phase when I would happily say ‘bye’ without realising why they are asking me to do that. Now I feel how stupid I was. Then there are comments on how I was intentionally trying to show these angles. The judgement around a woman’s clothes, character, sexuality is so sensitive, it’s exhausting. I hope we can come to a place where the media, the paparazzi are more cognizant of these things.”
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Nora Fatehi: ‘They zoom into their body parts unnecessarily’
Janhvi Kapoor is not alone when it comes to feeling this way. Earlier Nora Fatehi too had spoken up about made to feel uncomfortable with the way some of the paps zoom into some body parts while clicking her. In an earlier interview with News18, Nora had addressed the paparazzi’s behaviour while chasing a female celebrity and said, “I guess they’ve never seen a butt like that before. It is what it is. The media doesn’t just do it to me but to other female actors also. Maybe they don’t zoom into their butt because it’s not exciting but they zoom into their other body parts unnecessarily. Sometimes, I think that there’s nothing to zoom into, so what are they focusing on?”
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Mrunal Thakur: ‘I told them that I respect your profession, you need to respect me’
Mrunal Thakur had even shared how her parents feel uncomfortable looking at her pictures, clicked from wrong angles, being flashed on the internet.
The Sita Ramam actress told iDiva that she had to have a conversation with the paps. She said, “Earlier I was facing this problem, until I had a conversation with the paps. I showed one of them the chat which my mother had shared where she had said ‘kiti pan dhaaklele kapde ghaatle tari pan te loka focus tithech kartat (however you dress up, they focus there only)’, that’s what she said in Marathi. So I was like should I stop getting clicked, should I change my route when I see you? And they know the car so we can’t even ignore them.”
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“But I just told them that I respect your profession and you need to respect me and my identity, my character and who I am because when my relatives and family friends see, it doesn’t leave a good impression, not on me, not on the page it is uploaded on. So, they’ve understood and I am really happy that there are people who are also talking about it, that they are not comfortable. I don’t know why others don’t talk. Maybe they are okay with that, they can go and pap them that way, not us,” she added.
The pap’s side of the story:
Veteran paparazzo Yogen Shah has been in the field for over thirty years. He strongly reacts to celebs being clicked inappropriately. In fact, he says he’s in support of all the actors speaking up and demands a set of guidelines for paps on field to follow and basic empathy to navigate through such issues.
When asked for his reaction on celebrities getting upset by the way they are clicked some times, he said, “It is not right. We should know where to draw a line. Just because we have an access to the stars and because they are pally with paps on field, it doesn’t mean we click then disrespectfully.”
Yogen further shared that press photographers are conscious of what the publication, they supply pictures to, will pick up and what they won’t because there are stricter guidelines, however, he said, “There are many boys who stand for hours together to click celebrities who are almost always late at events and media appearance. While most of them know their limits, some get desperate to click pictures as the celebs don’t give them much time. Then there are some of them on field who have their YouTube channels and social media pages and such pictures make for clickbait content, so they don’t know where to stop.”
He says, “Stars respect the paps and vice versa. Just a basic understanding of understanding their body language and not clicking their pictures when they seem uncomfortable, for instance while stepping out of their car.”
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