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New Delhi:

Veteran actress Zeenat Aman’s latest Instagram post or what she playfully calls, “lunchtime lecturing” sheds mild on the “falsehoods” and “cruel statements” that the actress was subjected to in her lifetime by being “in the public eye.” Ever since becoming a member of the photo-sharing app, Zeenat Aman has unmasked many aspects of her life, being her tumultuous relationship with Dev Anand to the accusations of obscenity which got here her means throughout the shoot of Satyam Shivam Sundaram. The actor, who has by no means shied away from baring her soul to the world, did nothing totally different in her newest publish as properly.

Starting the word on “public perception” the movie veteran wrote, “Public perception is a funny thing. When you are famous, strangers imagine that they have an intimate knowledge of your character and life story. Many also feel entitled to the sort of gossip and judgement that would elicit their moral outrage when the tables turned. In my 50 years in Hindi cinema, I have read and heard enough falsehoods and cruel statements about myself to fill a book. I do not incline to list and counter each one of these because they simply do not merit so much of my attention.”

Revealing her methodology of coping with “loose gossip”, Zeenat Aman continued, “Now I know the usual response to such an assertion is – well if you choose to be in the public eye, then deal with the gossip. To which my reply is – yes, I have and will continue to deal with it. But I will also not hesitate to say that spreading loose gossip and false information says much more about the speaker than the one who is spoken about!”

The actress nonetheless ended her caption on a light-weight word by thanking her followers for his or her “thoughtful messages” under her every publish. She signed off by saying. “Alright, that’s enough lunchtime lecturing for the week! I truly appreciate all of you who enjoy my Instagram handle, and share such kind and thoughtful messages and comments with me. I’m unable to reply to them all, but I do read them. Have a lovely week, everyone!”

Zeenat Aman’s heartfelt publish struck a word with actress Kajol, who in flip commented, “facts.”

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Recently,  in an essay for Vogue, Zeenat Aman additionally opened up about how social media has positioned her within the driver’s seat of her narrative, making it a “liberating” expertise. “I didn’t realise how much being able to publicly speak my truths would delight me. As a leading actor in the ’70s, I was always a subject of conversation, but rarely on my terms. The gossip and perceptions could be suffocating, and there was rarely recourse to set the record straight. On Instagram, I have found the freedom to express myself. It’s liberating, and consequently, I haven’t accepted a single interview request that’s come my way since February,” the actress wrote.

Zeenat Aman additionally added that it was her son Zahaan and his accomplice, Cara, who satisfied her to affix Instagram. She confessed that she had a number of “trepidations” about becoming a member of the photo-sharing app, however they satisfied her to present it a shot.

Zeenat Aman is finest identified for her work in iconic movies like  Yaadon Ki Baaraat, Don, Satyam Shivam Sundaram and Hare Rama Hare Krishna.