‘I have nothing against Neha Dhupia, I just wanted to make a point’
Actor Suchitra Krishnamoorthi’s Twitter conversation with Neha Dhupia about ‘chamchagiri’ has created quite a flutter. It started with the former tweeting, “Peeps its not #nepotisminbollywood one shld aggravate against but chamchagiri. I mean how did #nehadhupia suddenly get all these talk shows except that she is #karanjohar s new bestie and #femina Missindia 2002!! shes no blood relative or star kid is she,” (sic).
Dhupia replied: “Dear ma’am, this is possibly the most distasteful and disgraceful tweet I’ve ever read (trust me I have read a lot) to reduce a friendship of many years, that you know nothing about speaks volumes of you.”
When we ask her further about this ‘chamchagiri’, Krishnamoorthi says her tweets are ‘self explanatory’. “I don’t want to fan it further. I wanted to make a point, I did that, nothing against Neha or anyone personally. Like I said, if you are talking about Tesla (vehicle manufacturer), you will take Elon Musk’s (cofounder and face of Tesla) name, right? I have nothing against anyone,” she says.
Since she hinted at how connections help people in the industry, we ask the 44-yearold whether it’s all about that or talent plays an important role too. “It’s a combination of both. There are so many factors, one can’t pin point on something. It’s what corporates call ‘networking’. It’s quite the same. But especially in the field of arts it must not be so specific, people with talent should get more opportunities,” says the actor.
Krishnamoorthi later tweeted that she was trolled for saying what she did. “i knew i would get trolled... Ofcourse nobody survives without talent. But do hear what a lot of people are saying... Its groupism that thrives (i used the word chamchagiri) (sic),” she wrote.
She sticks to what she said, and adds “it’s not correct to penalise children and make them feel ashamed of their parents and lineage.” “This whole nepotism thing started about star kids. It’s reverse bullying. That’s not the issue. I felt the narrative was getting very crude, and I wanted to put my perspective,” she tells us.
After actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, she finds social media to be toxic, because of the trolling . She says, “I went off it for a few weeks, it felt like I was on a toxic overload. You go back to it, you get sucked into it, whether you like it or not.”