The last few months have been a roller coaster ride for South actress
Samantha Ruth Prabhu. She had to face immense scrutiny on social media, ever since she and actor
Naga Chaitanya announced their separation in October last year. While there has been criticism, trolling and personal attack,
Samantha also received support from many including celebs from the film fraternity.
Actress
Paayel Sarkar feels this reaction to the news of Samantha and Naga Chaitanya’s separation has once again exposed this country’s revulsion to unsuccessful marriages.
“It’s not only about Samantha, but this pathetic image that we often create to blame separated single women painting them as “bad” influences has been a curse for ages. In fact, whenever a woman succeeds on her own some people can’t digest it, because our society still thinks that women can’t be complete until they marry and bear children. That’s how our society has turned a separated successful woman a bad role model for the girls. Her reputation is often thrashed so that she realizes that her decision to leave behind a seemingly good marriage won’t be appreciated by society,” explains the actress.
Meanwhile, on the work front, Paayel has two films in her kitty - Pijush Saha’s upcoming thriller ‘Jaalbandi’ costarring debutant Prince,
Darshana Banik, June Maliah, Pampa Saha,
Dipankar Dey and
Kharaj Mukherjee and Barshali Chatterjee’s love story ‘Kulpi’, romantic tale between a dwarf and an uptown girl.