“I lost four brands the day I campaigned for candidates for Lok Sabha election, lost three events. The hit that my work took at the end of that experience…,” said Swara Bhaskar. Swara was at the 9th Indian Film project event where her upcoming film “Sheer Qorma”. poster was released.
Swara Bhaskar, Bollywood actress has campaigned for CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar and Atishi Marlena of AAP during the Lok Sabha elections 2019.
Swara is known for speaking against injustices and is quite vocal about social and political issues on social media and debates on TV channels. Due to her criticism of communal hatred and bigotry under the BJP government, she has been at the receiving end of brutal trolling by right-wing Hindutva brigade on social media. She regularly gets hate messages, rape, and death threats. Despite the real danger, Swara refuses to cower down. She takes it all in her stride with much amusement.
At the event, she was asked why Bollywood shies away from speaking on matters of relevance to the country. To that, she replied how being open about her support to Kanhaiya Kumar has cost her brand endorsements.
Swara added that the people have to understand that there is a cost to speaking up in public and many bollywood celebs do not want to risk their status or work or receive flak from society or sponsors.
“I am not saying, ‘Oh! I am so great,’ but if you’re going to make the stakes so high, that a superstar can talk about a dinner conversation and then face so much flak or another superstar can give his opinion and his car can be stoned on a shoot, then how can we expect people with legacies or public profiles to actually risk their lives, families, careers? Why should they? We need to ask ourselves questions as a society.”
“As public figures you’re more vulnerable to a lot of destructive negativity… If we want our public figures, people with legacies, to speak out and take responsible sides, then we have to become the society, which doesn’t punish people doing that,” the actor said
Kudos to your spirit Swara Bhaskar……..you are beautiful inside out.
Being opinionated is a characteristic that doesn’t come to all????????