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Trolls and memes on the over-the-top world of college romance in “Student Of The Year 2” (SOTY 2) followed soon after the film’s trailer dropped on social media. Defending the film, its director and actors say the movie promotes sports and the world it shows is fictional. Director Punit Malhotra and the film’s lead actors Ananya Panday, Tara Sutaria and Tiger Shroff opened up about trolls and social media.
Ananya, who is making her Bollywood debut with the film, said: “I love all the memes and trolls that are coming on my way… I think since ‘Koffee With Karan‘, my expression became the subject of memes and I love sharing it with my friends. I put it on my social media stories. It is really funny… honestly.”
Tara, who is also debuting with the film, said: “Initially, trolling did affect me but now I know that it is a part and parcel of our job…and especially with a film like ‘SOTY 2’, where we are trying to create a world that is larger than life.
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“I think even when the first ‘Student Of The Year‘ (SOTY) came, there was criticism that the film faced. But now we all take it in good spirit.”
Being the daughter of actor Chunky Pandey, Ananya has seen how her father has been trolled and many memes are made on him on social media.
She said: “I am so familiar with the whole thing (of social media memes and trolling) that I saw how my father can laugh at himself.”
“I have learnt it too… I think because he took it such a positive way, now that I get trolled or something, I take it positively. It doesn’t affect me.”
Punit said: “Look I am making a film and the ‘unreal’ feeling of the world that you are watching on-screen is coming from the fact that I am creating the world. But when you watch the whole story, the film and its world will not come across so unreal.”