Whenever trolling or bullying happens, we three have each others back: Ananya Panday on her BFFs Suhana Khan and Shanaya Kapoor

By Gurpreet Kaur

on July 23, 2019

Ananya Panday made her much-awaited Bollywood debut with Student Of The Year 2, co-starring Suhana Khan and Shanaya Kapoor. However, even before the film released, she faced a fair share of trolling and online bullying. She was even accused of lying about her admission to foreign universities. However, she did not back down and launched a new initiative, titled So Positive, to confront the social media bullying.

Now in a recent interaction with a leading daily, Ananya claimed that it was her BFFs, Suhana Khan and Shanaya Kapoor, who stood by her in her difficult times. Claiming that the three of them have each other's backs, the actress said, "Suhana, Shanaya and I have grown up together and are practically of the same age. So whenever trolling or bullying happens, we three have each others back. We can count on each other during our lows. I am lucky because they are always with me no matter what." Revealing the reason behind her initiative, Ananya added, "But when my college trolling happened, I just realised how alone you feel at that time. You just need one person to believe you so that you can be fine. I realised that I have such a strong support system, but a lot of people don’t even have that. With this initiative, I want to support people so that they can just let out their feelings and have someone to believe in what they are saying," adding, "I feel happy that So Positive has made that change now: Before you pass a hateful comment, you get a notification asking are you sure you want to post it’. So it also makes that trolls think twice."

Furthermore, Ananya elaborated on the So Positive program by saying, "I feel like everyone is experiencing the bullying and trolling, but no one is speaking anything about it. I was also confused for a long time because I didn’t know exactly what I could do about it. So I had a word with my parents and my team, and thought that just starting a conversation would be a big step." She signed off by saying that she feels lucky and super blessed to be a star kid. "Yes, there is a negative side of comparison and trolling, but there are so many positive aspects to it and I just want to focus on that," Ananya concluded.

On the work front, she will next be seen in Pati, Patni Aur Woh, co-starring Kartik Aaryan and Bhumi Pednekar. The film will hit the screens on December 6, 2019.

(Source: Asian Age)