First Deepika Padukone took on a news daily when its Web edition carried a photo gallery crassly highlighting her assets. Now, beau Ranveer Singh has taken a page out of Deepika’s book and upbraided a newspaper which he alleges, carried a completely unfounded story on him.
Apparently, the newspaper had carried a report on Monday saying that not too long ago, Ranveer was suffering from depression and had sought the help of a therapist. He had been deeply affected, the story said, by the suicide of a close friend who had also been depressed for a while.
The report didn’t stop there: It also claimed that Deepika herself was inspired to talk about her own battle with depression because of Ranveer’s experience. Neither of the actors were quoted in the piece.
On Tuesday, Ranveer put up a post on his Facebook page, saying he was shocked when he saw the news report. Addressing the newspaper in question, Ranveer wrote: “That was uncool, uncalled for and an outright disrespectful imposition.
Talk about Monday morning blues. Picked up yesterday’s paper and read this ‘fairy tale’ of my depression about an intensely personal tragedy. Much worse, it was shamelessly aligned with another person’s conflict and both these unrelated stories were made to connect for a sensational effect; deplorable to say the least.
“Figment of one’s imagination now taken to another level, in which there’s a dramatic twist about a therapist too! Ludicrous! Obviously, the journo didn’t bother to check the veracity of this ‘news’ with me or any one of my representatives Appallingly unethical! Classic case of utterly irresponsible journalism. Is there any accountability? Or is the power of the pen now the terror of the pen?”
