MUMBAI: Fardeen Khan was recently seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar. The actor who made his debut in 1990 took  a back seat from the limelight a decade later and faced a lot of intense trolling and backlash for his appearance as he had visibly gained a lot of weight. The actor, in a recent interview, opened up about it.

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Fardeen said, “I was surprised to have got that attention. But, of course, you quickly understand that people remembered you in a certain way. They were surprised to see me. I had let myself go in the way that I had.” Fardeen said that it was “naturally painful and hurtful” to be at the receiving end of such comments. “I mean I was a worldwide trending topic at that time and not for the right reasons. The way I dealt with it… having been around the business you develop some thick skin. You kind of teach yourself or force yourself to not take it personally to whatever extent you can. You can find humour in it. You can philosophise about it. You can learn from it. For me, I tried to do all three. It was a punch and I took it on the chin.”

He added, “The intensity or the degree of meanness was a revelation. It does surprise you that people would find joy in someone else’s misery and despair.”

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Commenting on the excessive trolling Sharmin Segal got for Heeramandi, Fardeen said, “Everyone has a right to like or unlike someone’s performance. But this whole trolling aspect is something that’s just simply wrong and not done. I believe she has done a very, very decent job in Heeramandi. She had a very complex and challenging role, and she was working with some mega talent out there and for me she came across strong. I think it was a great start for her career.”

Concluding, Fardeen said, “You got to develop some thick skin and yes, when it’s wrong you got to speak up and call it wrong.”

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