Actors Samantha Akkineni and Naga Chaitanya tied the knot in October 2017 after being in a relationship for two years. The couple have a huge fan following and their fandom has only grown ever since they got hitched. Which is why, rumours of their divorce have left the media and fans in a state of frenzy.
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A few days ago, when Samantha was visiting a temple, she snapped at a reporter who asked her about the rumours surrounding her alleged divorce, reported The Indian Express. “I have come to a temple, don’t you have any sense?” she remarked.
Recently, while speaking to Film Companion South, actor Naga Chaitanya expressed his views on the speculations surrounding his marriage. “I think from a very early time in my career, I sort of kept my personal life personal and my professional life professional. I never mixed the both. I’ve always had this habit that I learned from my parents as I was growing up, I always noticed once they came home, they never spoke about work. And when they went to work, their personal life was never diluting into work. It was a very nice balance that they maintained, which I always observed,” said the actor.
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However, he mentioned that the constant discourse about his personal life was a bit painful in the beginning. “Initially, yes, it was a little painful. I was like ‘why is entertainment heading this way?’ But after that, what I’ve learned is that in today’s age, news replaces news. Today there’s one news, tomorrow there’s another news, today’s news is forgotten. But in my grandfather’s time, there were magazines, and magazines used to come once in a month. And that news sustained till you got the next piece of news. But today you’re getting the next piece of news, the next second or the next minute. It doesn’t stay in people’s minds for too long. The actual news, the news that matters, will stay. But the superficial news, the news that is used to create TRPs, is forgotten. Once I made this observation, it stopped affecting me,” he said.
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Samantha and Naga aren’t the first celebrity couple who have been under the radar for their personal life. As a country, we are so obsessed with celebrities that we forget to consider them as human beings who might be fighting several personal and professional battles. It’s perfectly normal to appreciate them for their work and media presence but it’s intrusive to demand answers about their personal lives.
While some celebrities might be able to dissociate from the media frenzy surrounding their relationships, some others might be affected adversely. Additionally, as citizens of the 21st century, we really need to evolve and stop being nosy neighbours who think they have the right to opine on other people’s marriages.
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