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Actor Fardeen Khan, who was recently seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Heeramandi, made his film debut back in the 1990s, but a decade or so later, Fardeen stepped away from the limelight. He made his acting comeback with Heeramandi, but a few years before that, the actor faced a barrage of online trolling when his body transformation left people shocked. In a recent interview, Fardeen said that he was shocked by the amount of attention he got even though he wasn’t actively a part of the movies at that time.
Talking to Zoom, he said, “I was surprised to have got that attention. But, of course, you quickly understand that people remembered you in a certain way. They were surprised to see me. I had let myself go in the way that I had.” Fardeen said that it was “naturally painful and hurtful” to be at the receiving end of such comments. “I mean I was a worldwide trending topic at that time and not for the right reasons. The way I dealt with it… having been around the business you develop some thick skin. You kind of teach yourself or force yourself to not take it personally to whatever extent you can. You can find humour in it. You can philosophise about it. You can learn from it. For me, I tried to do all three. It was a punch and I took it on the chin.”
Fardeen said that he was “not looking after” himself in that phase and “could understand why people would have the reaction like they did” but he was shocked by the degree of “meanness” that people displayed. “The intensity or the degree of meanness was a revelation. It does surprise you that people would find joy in someone else’s misery and despair.”
Fardeen’s Heeramandi co-star Sharmin Segal also had to face a lot of trolling for her performance on the show, and Fardeen said it is “unfortunate.” He added, “Everyone has a right to like or unlike someone’s performance. But this whole trolling aspect is something that’s just simply wrong and not done. I believe she has done a very, very decent job in Heeramandi. She had a very complex and challenging role, and she was working with some mega talent out there and for me she came across strong. I think it was a great start for her career,” he said,
Fardeen said that he has been a “victim” of such trolling himself, and added, “You got to develop some thick skin and yes, when it’s wrong you got to speak up and call it wrong.”
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