Is Kalki Koechlin worse than Deepika for attention seeking? - Page 3

Originally posted by: nonam

what is up with these posters labeling anyone addressing an important issue as attention seekers.

attention seekers are the ones calling the media, circulating their own pictures and then complaining about the media attention, while trying to be in the limelight without any merit or talent.

using your celebrity to bring attention to important topics is not what is meant by the phrase "attention seeking".

Originally posted by: IAmLuvBolly

She gave an interview about having been abused as a child. And the fact that people on this board are still harping on her use of the word "allowed" and are calling it as her having had sex as a child in a very nonchalant manner just proves that she is doing the right thing by trying to bring awareness about child sexual abuse.


She's not attention seeking. She's promoting her movie. Every time a movie comes out we will see interview after interview of the artists of the movie. Kalki is not an exception here. You will see interview of Anushka and PC when DDD is closer to release. You will interviews of RK and Anu when BV is closer to release. Same with Alia when Shaandar is out and so on and so on.

Originally posted by: nonam

what is up with these posters labeling anyone addressing an important issue as attention seekers.

attention seekers are the ones calling the media, circulating their own pictures and then complaining about the media attention, while trying to be in the limelight without any merit or talent.

using your celebrity to bring attention to important topics is not what is meant by the phrase "attention seeking".

you mean katrena 😆

Originally posted by: IAmLuvBolly

@atominis,

By taking seriously I was only talking about her acting. I understand your point now that the general public won't take her discussion about sexual abuse seriously since she's being judged by her comments about nudity in film, and nipples. Yes you are probably right in that regard. It's a really sad and depressing state of affairs when people cannot separate a discussion about nudity of a consenting adult from a discussion about child abuse.

I understand if people don't like nudity on screen. But I don't understand the thought that she's somehow lost credibility to discuss serious issues due to her own opinions about nudity. I get that it's happening, but I don't get that kind of thought process. Which kind of takes it back to this thread, I don't understand how her talking about a serious issue, or promoting her movie, is attention seeking.

@AllBlacks1,

First of all there was no shock value here. Maybe for some people but not for everyone. She's talked about having been abused as a child before. And her reason for talking was to bring awareness to the issue and not to seek therapeutic help from the general public.

People want to question her about the timing of this rather than focusing on the issue, even though she's talked about this before? OK. To me that's more indicative of these people's state of minds than Kalki's.

Am I the only one who thought by saying 'I was excited to show my naked body', she meant to say she was all excited to be this 'liberated actress' on the set by agreeing to be naked but on the day of the shoot she developed cold feet?I'm sure in the interview, there was a continuation to the quote. It's a different matter that only a part of the sentence was used as a headline.

And as far as I remember, Kalki never commented about the colour of the nipple, it was Shonali Bose, the director.

Originally posted by: IAmLuvBolly

[DIV]@atominis,

By taking seriously I was only talking about her acting. I understand your point now that the general public won't take her discussion about sexual abuse seriously since she's being judged by her comments about nudity in film, and nipples. Yes you are probably right in that regard. It's a really sad and depressing state of affairs when people cannot separate a discussion about nudity of a consenting adult from a discussion about child abuse.

[DIV]I understand if people don't like nudity on screen. But I don't understand the thought that she's somehow lost credibility to discuss serious issues due to her own opinions about nudity. I get that it's happening, but I don't get that kind of thought process. Which kind of takes it back to this thread, I don't understand how her talking about a serious issue, or promoting her movie, is attention seeking

I meant her interviews and opinions when I said most people won't take her seriously. Not her acting.

What's sad or depressing?

It happens to everyone. Like how Rishi Kapoor became butt of jokes when he talked about abuse against women and wrote nonsense about kamzor pe atyachar on Twitter. AB is bashed when he talks of woman empowerment. Prime Minister's own past is rubbed in his face when he talks about girl child. Aamir is bashed every time he talks about respect for women, children and does any episode of SMJ on marriage. Memes on his personal life go viral every time. Salman's mocked over "Being Human".

I feel one has to be careful about what one says or does, being a public figure. More so, if an issue, which one us talking about, is sensitive or requires dispelling of myths and misconceptions.

Recently, activist and child abuse survivor, Harish Iyer joked about rape being an ice breaker (apparently that gets people talking to him or fellow survivors). He was widely criticised for this and some survivors felt offended by this statement. Some felt he had made a mockery of their pain. So, judicious use of words becomes important.

Kalki can have her own opinions on nudity but the way she excessively discussed it, it came across as cheap.

Such talk becomes masala then. Like it or not, it's indeed hard to take it seriously. I mean, you know how an average reader will take such an interview.

Originally posted by: KochurShaakBata

Am I the only one who thought by saying 'I was excited to show my naked body', she meant to say she was all excited to be this 'liberated actress' on the set by agreeing to be naked but on the day of the shoot she developed cold feet?I'm sure in the interview, there was a continuation to the quote. It's a different matter that only a part of the sentence was used as a headline.

And as far as I remember, Kalki never commented about the colour of the nipple, it was Shonali Bose, the director.

kalki comes across as a desperate attention seeker.😡