Ka***i: Rupali Ganguly Recalls Being Abused By Elderly Woman For Playing Vamp In Sanjivani

Rupali Ganguly's TV show Anupamaa, which airs on Star Plus, premiered in 2020 and quickly became a hit with the audiences. Of late, the show has been mired in several controversies, including the death of a crew member on set and the exit of the main cast after a time leap. In a recent roundtable conference, Rupali revealed how the love and the hate TV audiences give to the characters is real. She emphasised more on the hate aspect actors face for playing a villainous role when she recalled an incident of being abused on the streets by a woman.Rupali Ganguly plays the titular role in Anupamaa | Image: Rupali Ganguly/InstagramRupali recalls playing a negative character in SanjivaniRuapali looked back at the time when she played different roles on TV and how people's perceptions of her changed as she moved on from one role to the other. She said that people have responded negatively to her villain roles and positively to her good roles. Her statements went on to shed light on how the lines between the reel and the real blurred for the audiences.Rupali's current show Anupamaa airs on Star Plus | Image: X"I play an out-and-out negative role in Sanjivani. One of the doctors was turning negative (in the show) so they made it like a typical TV drama. I said ok and played the role but the hate is real, the hate is very real. Me and Gurdeep (Kohli) we were going to the Lokhandwala market when an elderly woman came up to us and took Gurdeep aside and told her 'Tu iske saath mat ghoomna, yeh raise hi hai'," the Anupamaa star said. Rupali recalled that the woman hurled an abuse at her while going away, saying, "I felt so bad."When Rupali became a vamp for her fatherRupali further shared that her father, Anil Ganguly, was worried about her marriage as she turned a "vamp" on TV. "Forget them, my father being a filmmaker, said meri beti toh vamp ban gayi, isse shadi kaun karega. He genuinely meant it. Then Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai came, everyone thought that I was a bimbette. After Anupamaa came, people now come up to me and say, 'Isse door rehna. Isse mat milna'. This has been so good."

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Ka***i: Rupali Ganguly Recalls Being Abused By Elderly Woman For Playing Vamp In Sanjivani

Rupali Ganguly played a negative role in Sanjivani. She recalled how an elderly woman hurled abuse at her while she was out and about in Mumbai.

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