Social media isn’t for you to be nasty and vile: Shibani
Trolling celebrities on social media is not a new trend. And recently, actor Shibani Dandekar got a taste of it when her video with her house help Sunita didn’t go down well with netizens, who trolled her, for being disrespectful towards her maid.
But the 39-year-old remains unperturbed and says, “I don’t care what trolls say on social media and I don’t always respond to them. But at times, I feel it’s important to put some people in place. Social media isn’t a place for you to be judged and criticised by others or have someone shoot you down constantly. This isn’t a platform for you to be nasty and vile.”
In the video, Dandekar is seen asking her house help if she had boiled the pasta with some salt in it, but when she says no, the actor made her disappointment evident while exclaiming, “Sunita, oh my God, now we’ll have to improvise.”
Calling the incident a joke, Dandekar clarifies that she is a disaster in the kitchen, and Sunita has been very supportive to her. “Humour is a huge part of the way I operate and if people can’t understand a joke then they should not follow me. I know the kind of relationship I share with people I work, and they also understand,” she explains.
Dandekar feels that at such a time, everyone is facing different challenges so we shouldn’t judge. “If someone wants to post fitness or grooming videos, let them. If you don’t want to see it, don’t look at it. But you can’t tell somebody how to live.”