‘We Can’t Control People’s Minds’

Actor Rashmika Mandana, who made her movie debut with ‘Kirik Celebration’ on the age of 20, opens up on how she offers with trolls and why she would not thoughts folks speaking about her private life.

Speaking concerning the negativity on social media that comes her far more typically than one would really like, Rashmika says, “On the finish of the day, we’re entertainers. We do movies to entertain folks. That’s the core purpose why we bought into the artistic area. Such as you stated, it totally will depend on how the viewers perceives your work. On the identical time, it’s slightly greater than that as a result of individuals are seeing us in all places, folks love us for who we’re. That’s the great thing about our era. You do a great movie, folks applaud you. In case you do a not-so-good movie, individuals are like what did you do? Our life doesn’t cease at one movie. It’s a journey”, reviews Hindustan Instances.

Prior to now, she has spoken about how this intense scrutiny about her life and profession affected her psychological well being. Now, she says she has learnt the right way to cope with it. 

“It simply comes with the job. That’s all I can say. Ten years in the past, this intense quantity of paparazzi and social media wasn’t there. Again then, if folks needed to see stars, they went to the theatres, to not their properties. And now, it’s not like we are able to ignore this side as a result of it’s a part of the scene as we speak. We are able to’t maintain it apart; we simply have to just accept it and transfer ahead,” she says.

Rashmika had three releases in 2022, which included her Bollywood debut and an enormous success in Sita Ramam. In 2023, she goes one step additional with 4 releases in three languages—Varisu, Mission Majnu, Animal, and Pushpa 2: The Rule.

Regardless of so many movie releases, she has additionally repeatedly made headlines for her private life so does that annoy her? “All of us turned actors to be observed so you may’t say ‘speak about solely our work’,” says Rashmika, including, “It’s folks’s perspective. We’re public figures. We don’t have management over what you concentrate on us. We are able to’t management your minds. However on the identical time, it’s the love and the curiosity that you’ve got round you that retains you going. If folks weren’t interested by you, no person would speak about you. Folks speak since you are relatable as we speak. So, whether or not it’s constructive, unfavourable, on the finish of the day, at the very least, you spoke about me,” she says.

Rashmika has two massive releases in January 2023—Varisu reverse Vijay, which releases in theatres on January 12, and Mission Majnu reverse Sidharth Malhotra, which releases on Netflix on January 23. She additionally has Animal and Pushpa 2 within the pipeline.