Ever since she made her movie debut with Kirik Party on the age of 20, Rashmika Mandanna has needed to discover ways to stay within the highlight. An actor’s life in India is essentially spent making an attempt to get used to the celebrity and a focus that comes with it. But over time, Rashmika realised that it has its negatives too. In a freewheeling chat with Hindustan Times, the actor opens up on how she offers with trolls and why she does not thoughts individuals speaking about her private life. (Also Read | Rashmika Mandanna on being ‘disliked’: ‘As actors individuals are going to speak about us, can’t anticipate them to solely such as you’)
Talking in regards to the negativity on social media that comes her far more usually than one would really like, Rashmika says, “At the end of the day, we are entertainers. We do films to entertain people. That is the core reason why we got into the creative field. Like you said, it entirely depends on how the audience perceives your work. At the same time, it’s a little more than that because people are seeing us everywhere, people love us for who we are. That is the beauty of our generation. You do a good film, people applaud you. If you do a not-so-good film, people are like what did you do? Our life doesn’t stop at one film. It’s a journey.”
In the previous, she has spoken about how this intense scrutiny about her life and profession affected her psychological well being. Now, she says she has learnt cope with it. Rashmika says, “It just comes with the job. That’s all I can say. Ten years ago, this intense amount of paparazzi and social media wasn’t there. Back then, if people wanted to see stars, they went to the theatres, not to their homes. And now, it’s not like we can ignore this aspect because it is part of the scene today. We can’t keep it aside; we just have to accept it and move forward.”
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. But if one googles her identify, likelihood is that the highest news can be gossip about her private life. Does that annoy her? “We all became actors to be noticed so you can’t say ‘talk about only our work’,” says Rashmika, including, “It’s people’s perspective. We are public figures. We don’t have control over what you think about us. We can’t control your minds. But at the same time, it’s the love and the curiosity that you have around you that keeps you going. If people weren’t curious about you, nobody would talk about you. People talk because you are relatable today. So, whether it’s positive, negative, at the end of the day, at least, you spoke about me.”
Rashmika has two huge 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.
