I am taking a bitter pill to run my house: Anjali Anand on Dhamaal 4 body shaming jokes
Content creator Saumya Dubey questions actor Anjali Dinesh Anand on her interview comments on fat-shaming jokes and body positivity in Dhamaal 4. Anand replied that she is taking whatever roles come her way while waiting for the industry environment to change.
Actor Anjali Dinesh Anand has responded after content creator Saumya Dubey criticized her for speaking about body positivity while acting dhamaal 4A film that featured jokes about his weight. Sharing a video, Dubey said that Anand cannot talk about body positivity while he was also a part of the humor that made fun of his size.
The debate started when a producer shared a video questioning Anand’s recent comments in an interview, where she said she responded to body shaming people by calling them “ugly”.
The creator wrote alongside the video, “The problem isn’t that she played a flawed character. The problem is that you can’t build your brand around body positivity, profit from that message, and then participate in the exact kind of humor you claimed to stand against.”
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Dubey’s post referred to a clip in which Anand told a journalist, “Somebody calls me fat, I’ll call them ugly, because they are, they’re ugly inside and out, and they’re showing it to me.”
Responding to the statement, the producer said that she was disappointed after watching dhamaal 4alleged that several scenes featuring Anand relied on fat-shaming humor.
The producer said, “I went for a bit of nostalgia, but came back very disappointed. There were fat jokes in every scene you were in. There were elephant noises when you came in and the dialogue around your character was all fat jokes.”
The producer also questioned why Anand chose such a role while advocating body positivity.
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She said, “I understand it’s fictional. I understand it’s humorous, but not at the expense of how you look. You have a plus-size brand, you promote body positivity, and then you do movies where every scene revolves around jokes about your weight. I really thought of you as an inspiration.”
Anjali Anand later responded in the comments, saying that she doesn’t have the luxury of turning down work. He wrote, “Yes, my love. Because society is still ugly. Look at the comments on my page and you will find it.”
Explaining why she accepted the role, the actor said, “Until I put myself out there and show what I can do with my talent, no one will write a role for me. So yes, I am biting the bitter pill to run my household and put food on my table. I am taking the projects that come my way.”
He said that no filmmaker was waiting to cast him in roles of his choice.
Listing his previous projects, Anand wrote, “I don’t have the option to choose what I want to do and what I don’t. There are no directors lining up to give me roles.” untag, two and a half kilos of love, Rocky and Rani’s love story And dhamaal 4.
The actress said she hopes attitudes towards plus-size actors will eventually change.
“If they want to cast a fat girl, darling, I’ll be the best fat girl they’ve ever seen because I’m here for the long run. I have to wait until the whole environment changes. This is a revolution and it’s going to take time, and I have the ability to wait until then,” she said.
Drawing comparisons with actors playing fictional characters, Anand said, “Playing a serial killer in a film doesn’t mean he endorses killing people. Don’t belittle me for my size. Look what I can do with my talent and where I have reached with it.”
Anand was recently seen in Indra Kumar’s film dhamaal 4With Ajay Devgan, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Javed Jaffrey, Ravi Kishan and Esha Gupta.