Swara Bhasker: We should have a civil conduct on social media

By: IANS | New Delhi | Published: October 21, 2018 4:14:16 pm

Swara Bhasker has often been a victim of trolling and online bullying.

Known for speaking her mind, actress Swara Bhasker, who has often been a victim of trolling and online bullying, says like any other public sphere, social media should also have a civil conduct.

Asked if social media bullying bothers her, Swara told IANS here: “It used to bother me in the beginning when it happened and I felt very hurt. I felt it was very unjust… Then I realised life is unjust. They are not doing it out of a sense of justice, but doing it from a place of viciousness, hatred. So what would you do about that? They have no identity. I became inured to it.”

Swara added that “social media is a virtual public sphere and like other public spaces we should have a civil conduct on social media. It is a virtual public space”.

The 30-year-old made her debut in filmdom in 2010 with Madholal Keep Walking. She was then seen in Raanjhanaa, Tanu Weds Manu, Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Nil Battey Sannata, Anaarkali of Aarah, Prem Ratan Dhan Payo and Veere Di Wedding.

Talking about the kind of work she wants to do now, Swara said: “I am at a strange point… because after Nil Battey Sannata, Anarkali and Veere Di Wedding, I am like What should my next script be? I dont know how to up that because I feel the standards have become too high for scripts. I have not signed a film after Veere Di Wedding.”

Over her nine-year-journey in Bollywood, Swara has essayed relatable characters like Chanda from Nil Battey Sannata or Bindiya from Raanjhanaa.

“I have been very lucky also with the kind of roles I have been given or that I have landed even if they have been in the supporting category or protagonist roles…. I cant control what I am offered but I can control what I choose. So, I am very careful of what I choose.”

The actress said she is “dying” to do the movies based on dancing around the trees “but now the dancing around the trees in Switzerland is not happening. So, I feel like I am 20 years late in the industry”.

Do you aspire to do something more?

“There is a lot of stuff I still want to do and I hope that I am able to do that in whatever I do next. I think as an artiste, you can never be satisfied because satisfaction means the beginning of the death of an actor. I dont want to be satisfied. I hope that my ambition always stays unsatiated,” she added.

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So whats next?

Swara, who featured in web series Its Not That Simple, said: “I am doing very interesting work in the web space. I am very excited. I think the web space is a new space. Its offering a lot of exciting and new work and I am holding on to my time for films because I want the next one to be very special.”