Nothing Intended: Shruti_Seth, a Daughter not fit for 'The Selfie'

                                           By: Ashutosh Asthana

Scrolling down the news feed of Facebook, I saw a proverbial face of television industry after a long time. It was difficult to recollect the name of that girl. I casually started scrolling further when again another photo of that girl came up. I remember she was a supporting actress in the film ‘Fanaa’ and anchored a famous comedy show, “comedy circus”. I was curious to know why was she on facebook, oh yes! She was Shruti Seth. I read her news and then understood the whole matter.

For all those who are still unaware about the so called ‘kaand’ in which Shruti Seth has indulge into, I would like to tell that the ‘shararat’ famed actress has done a shararat on social media by criticizing on Modi’s campaign, ‘#SelfiewithDaughter which he announced in his ‘Mann ki Baat’ recently. For her criticism she is now facing a real hard time, as the whole social media community has stood against her. For the past few days she is battling a barrage of staunch criticism on Twitter, where she openly criticized PM’s selfie campaign.

With more analysis than actually needed on this matter, I reached to the following point that unnecessary limelight is being given to this issue. Our Pradhanmantri launched the campaign while expressing the Indians his ‘Mann ki Baat’ so if we go by the constitution of India every Indian has the freedom of expressing his or her ‘Mann ki Baat’ just like the Prime Minister, so why such hue and cry on this statement of Shruti Seth who only meant that bigger issues related to women should be resolved than clicking a selfie!

Poor Shruti who was just trying to be a ‘messiah’ for Indian women didn’t expected that she would have to face such hate tweets on twitter but was this a gimmick to capture the much needed limelight for this television actress. I mean when did we last saw Shruti Seth in the shoes of lead actress in a movie or serial although after this incident it seems that she has learnt good ‘rajneeti’ with her previous experiences. Calling the PM selfie obsessed and writing a note to the people of India, all these things doesn't put in place for an actress like her who is rarely seen recently. In the recent past Shruti was nowhere to be seen but now the whole social media is packed with Shruti Seth’s tweets. At least people like me, who even forgot the name of this actress will now remember her for the next few months. In many ways it is not Shruti’s fault, it is we the social media users who make topics trending in the media.

Well I didn’t feel anything wrong in Shruti Seth’s statements, but the intentions behind commenting on the campaign, I seal my mouth on that! I leave up to you all, you know it better.

Happy Reading!