Men not allowed. The capital’s press got a taste of the Bachchan ire this week. Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan, a former actress and wife of megastar Amitabh Bachchan, came across as blunt, and even rude, to male journalists at a press conference organised by the Indian Women’s Press Corps.
There were mostly female journalists except for cameramen who happened to be male. Jaya started off by saying testily that only female journalists could interact with her. A visibly defiant Bachchan even lost her cool when a cameraman’s mobile phone started ringing. She asked him to leave the conference immediately. “Media, particularly electronic media, don’t give straight reports. They cut and paste (edit) the views of celebrities.”
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