During an interactive session at a college fest, Mrs Bachchan claimed that the constant clicking of pictures hampered her flow of thoughts. The veteran actress then slammed the photographers and decided to teach them “basic manners.”
She said, “Please stop taking pictures. I hate it because it’s right in to my eyes. These are basic manners which we Indians have to learn. Just because you have a camera and a mobile, you have the freedom of take anyone’s picture anytime, without asking that person! These are basic educations that all colleges and schools and parents at home should teach their children. It’s very annoying. I have a freedom to say no from being photographed. I am trying to chat here. You are sitting right in front of me, clicking right into my eyes. I hate indiscipline.”
Even after snapping at the audience and the media, people continued to click her pictures - annoying her to the extent where she decided to stop the session mid-way and said “Aap photo kheech lijiye phir main baat karungi.”
She then continued, “That’s why I never go to such functions because I am an extremely outspoken person... You have to show how professional you are by organising it in a simple but in a good way. Basic courtesy is you ask, ‘do you mind if we call the press’, ‘do you mind if the pictures are taken’. I’m not against the media; I’m not against the media taking pictures. But there’s time for everything. I’m sorry for sounding like a great grandmother but that’s what I am.”
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