Actress Richa Chadha says her determination to be a “civilized human being” inspires her to take a stand on socio-political issues.
Chadha, acclaimed for her strong performances in films such as “Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!”, the “Gangs of Wasseypur” series, “Masaan” and “Fukrey”, is known for her nonchalant stance on major issues, which often happened. Huh. He was targeted by trolls on social media. However, the 34-year-old actress has no plans to calm down as she said that she will continue to speak her mind.
“I think everyone wants to speak their mind and they used to. They were able to speak their mind and be honest and comment on fuel price hike or something or the other. And I think It comes from the desire to be a decent human being,” Chadha told PTI in an interview.
The actor said being silent, especially when something goes wrong, is not a “good idea”.
“You don’t have to be an activist or a very outspoken person. But if there’s something wrong being done to another person, keeping quiet because you’re afraid of something, that’s not a good idea.” ” Chadha recently launched a social media initiative, The Kindery, which aims to amplify the everyday positive stories of society amid the pandemic.
The actor along with his friend and entrepreneur Krishna Jagota has started a dedicated Instagram page, where they will highlight people and their positive actions.
Chadha said he started the page in response to all the horrific stories he heard and read during the devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India in April and May this year.
“I was reading the news day by day about some sad event happening around me. I thought it would start affecting our collective psyche as Indians.” Sometimes, we Get lost in the totality of everything. So, we want to highlight people who are doing good deeds, make them famous, talk about real life and that’s how this initiative started.” One of the reasons behind the campaign is to spread “kindness”. was, something he did believe was being diminished by society, especially because of the polarized social media world.
That’s why, Chadha said, The Kindry doesn’t have a Twitter handle.
“When I go on Twitter, I feel like it only encourages people to be provocative. It’s a medium where people are encouraged to be provocative, made fun of at the expense of others.” Is… “I’m not going to lie because I’ve been guilty of that too. If a troll has said something stupid to me, then I have also replied to give an example of that. So it also depends on what medium you are using and that’s why we don’t have twitter handle of The Kindry. We only exist on Instagram.” However, the actor made it clear that she doesn’t want to present a utopian view of the world to people and just wants to clear their minds of negativity.
“Kindness needs to be shared and it has a really similar effect. When you read something cool that someone else is doing, you feel the same effect as in those cat and dog videos. You feel a little better And you think, ‘No. The world isn’t ending.’ “We are not saying that bad things are not happening in the society. We are not promoting an imaginary world where people are just pretending that everything is fine.”
Chadha further said that The Kinderee will celebrate people irrespective of their political beliefs.
He added that the initiative will focus on “anyone who is doing good work, not just people who agree with me”.
“I don’t know the political opinion of these people who are helping each other. People can talk about India, India and the idea of India. But we have to understand that India is essentially made up of Indians.
“Now you may disagree with them, but they are still the same people who were born in the same country, who eat the same kind of food. Yes, there are differences. But that doesn’t mean that if I disagree with anyone. And they are doing good work in the society, that I won’t talk about,” Chadha said. On the work front, the actor will next be seen in the Voot series “Candy” and the third season of his Amazon Prime Video show “Inside Edge”. She will also start working on the third film “Fukrey” soon.
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