Rashmika Mandanna on being ‘disliked’

MUMBAI, JAN 06 (Online): Rashmika Mandanna spoke about people’s reaction to her and also listed probable reasons for why some ‘dislike’ her. The actor has been facing criticism after she said she had not watched Rishab Shetty’s Kannada film Kantara after it was released in September last year.

Rashmika Mandanna made her Bollywood debut with Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Goodbye in October last year. The actor has been in news recently after she was criticised by a section of people for not watching Kantara for a long time; the Rishab Shetty-starrer is one of the highest-grossing Kannada films ever, and was released in September last year. Now, in a new interview, Rashmika opened up about how she deals with the ‘hate’ she gets.

Recently, Kannada actor Kiccha Sudeep had also responded to the criticism that Rashmika was facing ever since she said that she had not watched Kantara; he said that a celebrity’s life is about getting ‘garlands as well as eggs, tomatoes and stones’. When asked if she had watched Rishab Shetty’s Kantara, Rashmika had told media in November that she did not get the time to watch it. In reaction to her comment, some on social media criticised Rashmika and said she had ‘forgotten her roots’; Rishab had directed her debut film Kirik Party (2016).

Speaking about people’s reaction to her, Rashmika Mandanna told Bollywood Bubble, “I realised that us being actors, we can’t expect people to only like us. You’re not going to pay everyone’s cup of tea. So, there’s going to be a lot of hate. There’s going to be a lot of love. But people are going to end up talking about you. Yeah! We’re public figures. We are talking to the public. We are out there. We are promoting our films. We are doing interviews.”