Jaya Bachchan On Her Behaviour With Paparazzi: 'Hate It When People Interfere In Personal Lives'

The actor recently became irritated at the photographers for 'interfering' in her personal space while speaking to her granddaughter Navya Naveli and daughter Shweta Bachchan for the podcast.

Jaya Bachchan and Navya Naveli at Lakme Fashion Week

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New Delhi: When it comes to photographers or paparazzi, veteran actress Jaya Bachchan is constantly at odds. She is frequently seen yelling and becoming enraged at them whenever she is clicked. She is also quite often in the news for her angry outbursts at the paparazzi as a result of her behaviour.

The actor recently opened up about her behaviour with the paps while speaking to her granddaughter Navya Naveli and daughter Shweta Bachchan for the podcast 'What The Hell Navya'. She said she gets irritated at the photographers for 'interfering' in her personal space.

She said, “I hate it, I despise it, I despise the people who interfere in your personal lives and fill their stomachs by selling those products. I am disgusted with such people. I always tell them, ‘Aapko Sharam nahi aati?’ (Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?)”

On hearing her grandmother's opinion about the paparazzi, Navya tried to explain that an actor's life is meant to be in the public eye. To this, her mother, Shweta Bachchan cut her off and said that this was not the scenario earlier. She also added, "There were only magazines and they didn’t attack anyone’s children. I grew up fine.”

Jaya Bachchan tried to reason out her opinion and told that she is okay with the criticisms that she receives for her work, but she does not like it when a judgement is made on her character. 

She said, "I don’t mind if you talk about my work and say she is a bad actor and she has done this film badly, she is not looking nice because it is a visual medium. But the rest, I do mind. You have no business to sit on personal judgment of my character. You are interfering in my life. I am walking somewhere and you are taking my picture, why bhai, am I not a human being?”

The actor further added, “The thing is they edit. What they take and what they put are different things. So, you have the freedom to do it, what about my freedom?”

In a recent video, Jaya Bachchan was seen lashing out at a paparazzo while attending Lakme Fashion Week with her granddaughter Navya which became viral on social media. She was criticized by netizens for her behaviour as she had said, "Serves you right… I hope you double and fall.”

In fact, Big Boss star Urfi Javed also expressed her views on the video and said, “Did she just say ‘I hope you double and fall’. Please let’s not be like her, let’s hope all of us only rise. Be it the one behind the camera or in front. People won’t respect you because you’re elder to them or more powerful, they’ll respect you if you’re nice to them.”