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    BOLLYWOOD GUP-SHUP                                                    AUGUST 28, 2026      |  The Indian Eye 37

                       Bollywood Gup-Shup

              TAAPSEE PANNU                                                     RHEA CHAKRABORTY

              ‘Gandhari’ to premiere on September 3                             Actor calls herself ‘the most trolled person in the country’

                      ctor Taapsee Pannu is                                                                        ctor Rhea Chakraborty, who
                      set to headline the up-                                                                      is currently seen in the sec-
              Acoming action-thriller                                                                      Aond season of ‘The Traitors’,
              ‘Gandhari’, which follows Bani,                                                               opened up about her past and why
              a mother who faces a series of                                                                 she did not want to take on the role
              challenges and goes to extraor-                                                                 of a ‘traitor’ on  the  reality  show.
              dinary lengths to find and protect                                                              In the fifth episode of the popular
              her daughter. Set in the fictional                                                              show, Shweta Tiwari asked Rhea to
              town of Joypurra, ‘Gandhari’ ex-                                                               explain why she was not the traitor.
              plores a mother’s love, resilience,                                                           Rhea said she did not want to take
              courage and sacrifice as Bani nav-                                                           on a role that could remind people of
              igates a dangerous world in her re-                                                        the difficult phase in her personal life. “I
              lentless pursuit of her daughter. The                                                   don’t want to be the traitor. The reason is
              film also stars Ishwak Singh, Chhaya                                               that the world already sees me as a traitor. Do you
              Kadam, Swastika Mukherjee, Mita                                            understand? It is coming from my personal life journey.
              Vashisht and Jatin Sarna.                                                  So I don’t want to come on a show and willingly murder
                  Written and produced by Kani-                                          here. This will be very bad for me. People will make dirty
              ka Dhillon and directed by Devashish                                     memes out of it,” she said. “I am the most trolled person in
              Makhija, the film marks one of Pannu’s                  most      the country. You all know what that means? I am not the traitor,
              physically demanding roles and combines intense action with an    all of you are making a big mistake. This is a distraction from the
              emotional storyline, as per the press release. Kanika Dhillon, writ-  one who is a traitor. One thing about me is that I don’t go with the
              er and producer of the film, said she wanted to tell the story of a   herd and I am not easily influenced. But my personality is such that
              woman who refuses to be defined by her circumstances.             I can influence people,” she added.

              KANGANA RANAUT

              Star questions Sharmila Tagore’s take on ‘Vande Mataram’

                      ctor-politician Kangana Ranaut has reacted to veteran actor Sharmila  Tago-
                      re’s recent comments on ‘Vande Mataram,’ saying that the poem should not be
              Aviewed only through a religious lens. The ‘Queen’ actress, on Thursday, shared
              a video of Tagore’s recent interview on her Instagram Stories and said she respected the
              veteran actor’s right to have reservations about the national song. However, she disagreed
              with the way Sharmila had interpreted the poem. Speaking about the poem as an artist,
              Kangana said poetry often uses metaphors and imagination to convey a larger message.
                  She wrote, “I appreciate that Sharmila ji has spoken about her reservation on Vande
              Mataram, but I am shocked as an artist how can her views on art/poetry can be so limiting
              and contrived, in any poetry or song words are metaphors, a poet or artist uses all kinds of
              imaginations draws unbelievable parallels to bring about the desirable effect, Vande Ma-
              tram is the spirit of freedom struggle Bankim Chandra ji is compelling the nation to awaken
              the Shakti within, how can you reduce such a great piece of art to mere religious practice.”

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