On Monday, actor Saqib Saleem became the latest celeb to hit out at the media and paparazzi for the ‘insensitive’ coverage’ of late actor Sidharth Shukla’s funeral. After Anushka Sharma, Kriti Sanon, Gauhar Khan and others, Saqib Saleem is the only actor to question the celebrity for paparazzi culture and said that it’s them who ‘have created this circus.’
Recalling Sidharth Shukla’ unfortunate demise and the news coverage that followed, he penned down a long note, “Have been meaning to talk about a few things for the past couple of days. the last few days have been really hard on a lot of us. Though I didn't know Sidharth Shukla personally but somehow the loss seems personal. Such a young good looking man just gone suddenly.. Can't even imagine what the family must be going through.”
Calling the media 'vultures', he continued "Have been watching videos of the funeral and my heart broke as to how insensitive we have become. Everything has become content for us.”
Further reacting to the coverage of Sidharth’s funeral where his rumoured girlfriend Shehnaaz Gill were hounded, he said, “I get the fact you need to click pictures, that's how portals run but n the process you have become vultures. Sticking a camera to someone’s face has to be one of the most inhuman things one can do..You want to click a picture pls do..but give people the space to grieve. I saw a video of Shehnaaz getting out of the car and hundreds of cameramen/photographers hounding her.”
In the long post, he also mentioned actors who he thinks are also ‘to be blame for this.’ “We (actors) have created this circus. We give these photographers access to our lives. From telling them what time we go to the gym, to what restaurant we eat at. Telling them our flight schedules so that they can come and click a picture and put it out. They charge a fee to do that and we happily pay them. This has been going on for a while but what this has done is that it's made them look at us as an Instagram post. I am writing this to remind all of us life is beyond all of this," he said.
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Saqib signed off by offering condolences to Sidharth Shukla’s grieving family.
Sidharth Shukla passed away on September 2, after suffering from a massive heart attack at the age of 40. He is survived by his mother and two sisters.
