Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma slammed a leading Bengali daily for publishing an interview, she never gave them. In an angry tweet today, Anushka wrote: “It is SHOCKING to see a completely fabricated interview of mine in a reputed publication like @Ei_Samay. This is to clarify that I have NEVER done an interview on my personal life with them or with anyone else. Just shows how carelessly your personal freedom is looked at by them.”
It is SHOCKING to see a completely fabricated interview of mine in a reputed publication like @Ei_Samay. This is to clarify that I have NEVER done an interview on my personal life with them or with anyone else. Just shows how carelessly your personal freedom is looked at by them. pic.twitter.com/ncmcuuJvVs
— Anushka Sharma (@AnushkaSharma) March 9, 2018
The headline reads like an excerpt taken out from her ‘interview’: “Some things just happen randomly, this picture was one of those” with the famous picture of Virat Kohli embracing Anushka.
One of the most popular dailies in West Bengal, Ei Samay’s readers believed the interview to be true. But Anushka’s tweet, angry readers called for ‘a ban on the newspaper’:
@Ei_Samay Shame on you..!! Cooking up stories just out of thin air.. no respect for privacy..??
now have some decency to apologise..!!— Prashant (@imPrushu) March 9, 2018
Indian media is the worst thing in this country..if they were doing a better job even politicians would be on track..!!
— Prashant (@imPrushu) March 9, 2018
And I was adoring this thinking wow, such golden words. Turned out to be fake in the end
— Akshay VK 18 Sharma (@akshaypasu) March 9, 2018
This is really unexpected from such a reputable Bengali daily. This is one of the best selling dailies in Bengal. Now we got that how they become popular. If this is their strategy to do business then we must ban them.
— snehashis kumar (@KumarSnehashis) March 9, 2018
Sry @AnushkaSharma. We didn’t knew that it was fake. Very sorry __ . We shouldn’t have Retweeted them…Sry sry __
— Sayan The VIRATIAN_ (@KohliWorshiper) March 9, 2018
This is not the first time media has gone beyond all decency of respecting celebrities’ personal space. Only two weeks back, Sridevi’s sudden death turned into a media spectacle with news channels ‘investigating’ and ‘inventing’ their own conspiracy theories.
