Mumbai: Ananya Pandey, daughter of actor Chunky Pandey, cliamed in a recent interview that people have started taking her seriously after her performance in recent OTT releases ‘Call Me Bae’ and ‘CTRL.’
Is this true ? Were her last two projects truly so pathbreaking that she’s now being taken seriously as an actor?
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The actress’ claim that people have started taking her seriously left netizens in splits, who soon started trolling her.
A Reddit user posted, “She is in her delusional era 😅.”
Another wrote, “Go to bed, think what you want to achieve, sleep on it, wake up and declare you have done it!! Rinse, repeat…life has never been simpler.”
Another user commented, “It’s more for her fashion Choices though.. one theatrical films where she isn’t Playing herself, all the air castles that are built by her pr will just vanish in air itself 🤣 she is sonam 2.0 not alia 2.0 . She has Just grabbed more eyeballs , yes . But taken seriously as an actor is a stretch.thanks to her pr. Even in that recent bhidu ad , I saw only overacting of her trying to imitate js . She is not even a good mimic.”
Referring to Ranbir Kapoor’s niece Samara Sahni, a user wrote, “The only person taking her seriously is Ridhima Kapoor’s daughter (Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives 3 reference).”
One user came out in support of Ananya and wrote, “Ok hear me out , I think she was pretty good in CTRL and it was a decent movie,” whereas another opined, “Tbh, she performed well in her previous two projects.”
In ‘Call Me Bae’, Ananya played the character of a heiress, who is downsized to a hustler after she cheats on her husband.
In ‘CTRL’, she portrayed the role of influencer Nella who finds herself lost in the dark world of AI assistants.
