Mumbai: Actor Ranbir Kapoor’s niece Samara Sahni recently grabbed media attention for her misdemeanour towards her maternal grandmother, veteran actress Neetu Kapoor in public.
At the wedding of Ranbir’s cousin, actor Aadar Jain on Friday, Samara was seen pushing away Neetu angrily while posing for the shutterbugs.
A video clip of the incident went viral and netizens started speculating whether Samara was upset with her grandmother.
Clearing the air, Ranbir’s sister and Samara’s mom Riddhima explained, “The whole thing got blown out of proportion. The poor child was only trying to pose. She wasn’t upset. She was very excited, so much so that in the car she kept saying that, ‘Oh my God, I’m sure there are gonna be photographers and I’m gonna pose like this and that’. And because the paparazzi were asking us to come together, she just wanted to pose on her own. She didn’t push her nani.”
Sharing that her daughter herself is confused about the rumours, she added, “She was like ‘when did I push her? I was trying to pose myself. I was just trying to extend my arm and get comfortable. I was posing. I never pushed anyone’.”
Riddhima also said that Samara, who is becoming aware of her public image, does not want media to dictate her behaviour.
Reflecting on a previous incident at the airport that caused some backlash, Riddhima said, “’The last time I was being goofy then also they had a problem and now when I’m not doing anything they again have a problem!,’” adding, “Kids these days are more aware about all these things. There’s so much exposure. However, my mother and I chat with her (Samara) every single day about it — the pros, cons, good, bad, ugly, so that it doesn’t affect her.”
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