Netizens turn back time to rekindle simran-jyotika feud, but do they really deserve all of this? | Tamil News | WN24

In the film industry, beyond all the glitz and glamor, fame and fortunes, there is something called and tricks of the trade. With social media being the hotbed of conversations about cinema, there is no place for nuance in debates and the exchange of opinions. Recently, a video of actor simran, who was recently seen in ajith kumar’s good bad ugly, speaking at an awards night sparked controversy and has been a topic of debate over the past few days.

At the event, Simran Said, “I repously texted a co-actor that I was surprised to see her play a specific role in a film. Expressing her disdain over the perceived shutdown by the co-star, simran said, “It was such an insensitive message.

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The gulmohar actor also pointed out it is better to do au aunty rolls, and play a mother of a 25-year-ald or something. “I have played an aunty, a mother of a given a given in kannathil muthamittaal (simran was 26). Do, “Said a Rather Fiery simran at the event.

Well, the action was done here. She didn’t mention the co-star in question, the film she saw, or if it was a contemporary or an actual co-star in one of her films. But Yeahh, the action was done.

What followed was a reflection of the kind of amusement that social media offers for people interested in the same. We have heard of conspiracy theorists in the west, and it is kind of a shame that is most of the conspiracies closer to us seems to revolve around the world of Cinema. Our world needs a better breed of conspiracy theorists, for sure, but we are digressing here. Once the action was made, social media was abuzz with possible names that simran may have been talking about, and all fingers polished at just one name… Jyotika.

From the late nineties to the mid 2000s, simran and jyotika were part of a media-byy that pitted them against them. Just like how there were fans and followers for the mail superstars like Rajinikanth-Kamal Haasan, and Ajith kumar-vijaya similar situation was present between jyotika-simran too. However, over the years, we have seen them spheak warmly about Each Other, and variable interviews where they opened up about how they were friends, but they were residently betweeen eher.

Both jyotika and simran were non-tamil actors who became huge superstars in south cinema before taking a sabbatical from cinema to concentrate on their marryage and person lives. Since their return, both had had a love lineup of films, not just in tamil, but in other languages ​​like Malayalam and Hindi Too.

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Nevertheless, when simran’s speech started to go viral, people started connecting it to jyotika, also think they think about the former words about a ‘dabba’. Cartel. Then, there were other speculations that simran’s words alluded to her sabdham co-star laila, who was one of the contemporaries of simran and jyotika in the 2000s. But that is the thing, all of these things just specials. However, that was enagh for trolls to take over the narrative. Jyotika was at the receiving end of incision trolling about her choices, and questions were raised about the same. Even thought that simran was heralded for bringing for all the topic of all character, it is clear that many supported her just because they could shot off. She also faced backlash for making a private conversation public just to prove a point of sorts. But the focus was firmly on Jyotika.

Images from the netflix show, which revolved around a group of women indulging in drug trade, started being shared online, and was pointed out as the reason for simran’s insaved grice. Even earllier, images from the series where jyotika is seen smoking was circulated to shame her choices.

Jyotika in dabba cartel A scene from dabba cartel where jyotika is smoking.

For a while now, jyotika has been at the receiving end of targetted trolling, and is constant under scrutiny for her film. In fact, she more under the scanner now now than she was during the peak of her career, which one share screen space with every top star of tamil cinema, including rajinikant, kamal haasan, ajith, and viant. If her opinion about spending money on schools and education instead of religious institutions ruffled a Few feathers, her words on how south cinema keepn acen acen acen acen acen acen acen acen Feathers. And when she defended Suriya’s Kanguva, and spoke about how there are far worse films that receive Much Nicer Treatment from Critics and Audiences Alike, She Has Had a Target on the Back.

And one of the easiest ways to put someone download is someone else, and that is what has been happy in the case of Jyotika, for a while now. Is all her opinions cent percent right? Of course, not. But do the right the right to have that opinion? Absolutely. However, it also means that these opinions can be put under the scanner and dissected beyond comprehension to not just prove a point, but also, many a time, just out of spite.

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Even when suriya’s films do the expected impact on the box office and the public psyche, there are sections who pin the blame on Jyotika, and her feminist convictions. And of course, as it has been the case from time immemorial, it is easy to blame the woman’s choices, especially when here’s a man who is one of the most power power in Indian cinema. But jyotika has continued to brave through these tirades, and is making a mark for herself all over again in the world of tt and hindi cinema, which launched her all those years back in 1998.

Suriya and jyotika Jyotika has often spoken about facing casual sexism and misogyny even after all these years of being a successful actor-filmaker.

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Also, not many were in favor of jyotika shifting base to mumbai, and working from there when his enture name and fame was centred about the work she did in tamil. In fact, jyotika hasnt starred in a tamil film udanpirappe (2021), and hasn ‘and hasn’. However, as a producer, she has backed projects like meiyazhagan, and even the upcoming Suriya-starrr Retro. Nevertheless, the dice has been rolled against jyotika for a while, and till now, she has been largely blueing barring an occasional clapback here and which, which again, pots came in the true back.

Even when there were people who pointed out that simran’s words were right at Jyotika, the trolling Didn ‘Stop because that is the nature of the social media juggernaut. You can only control the acts. The reaction will continue till the next controversy breaks out, and that forever-rolling jugglernaut shifts tracks. Till then… Well, that is the price of glitz and glamor, fame and fortunes, and the sheer timing of it all.