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Vivek Oberoi :

Actors should take

criticism positively

ivek Oberoi is no stranger to successes and failures and the The 41-year-old said most of the criticism he faced has been

actor says that in a world where a person is judged instantly, personal.
Vhe tries to take criticism positively. Since his debut with Ram “For actors, everything from love to criticism is all personal. Which
Gopal Varma’s ‘Company’, Vivek has delivered hits like ‘Saathiya’, is why you see so many actors trying to insulate themselves, to

‘Masti’ and ‘Shootout at Lokhandwala’, and at the same time faced move away. Everything is focused personally.It’s either ‘I love you’
box-office disappointments in ‘Kyun! Ho Gaya Na’, ‘Prince’ and or ‘What crap, why did you do this film’. It’s immediate judgement.
‘Great Grand Masti’. You may be working on a film for a year, but someone walks in a
The actor believes that artistes must try to protect themselves from theatre for three hours and can say they hate you or love you. It is
both love and criticism.”The judgement of work for actors is brutal that personal,” Vivek said.

and also immediate. For example, I may not like a certain product, There is a lot of scrutiny on star kids, especially after the nepotism
but I will never target my criticism to you personally. There is no debate, but Vivek, son of veteran actor Suresh Oberoi, said it “has
hating or loving. But here (with actors), it is all personal. You have to always been there”.

protect yourself. If someone’s hitting you hard with criticism, look at “There has always been comparisons. Now you hear more about it.
it, analyse it and take something positive,” Vivek told PTI. Back in the day, if someone in the college was discussing about me,
“Same thing applies for goodness. You have crazy fans, sometimes I wouldn’t know instantly. Now the discussion is on social media, so
there is praise that’s undue and that also you don’t take to your you know it’s about you. There is no filter anymore,” he said.
head. So you have to take care of this both ways.”

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