‘Indians love Dharmendra, we wanted to show Bollywood’s regard for him’: Senior paparazzo on Sunny Deol’s outburst, coverage

Sunny Deol’s anger also stemmed from a video of his family crying next to Dharmendra’s hospital bed, allegedly leaked by a staff member. “Dharmendra’s leaked video from the hospital wasn’t our fault… everyone just dumps their frustrations on us,” lamented Chawla.

He clarified that even before he watched that video of Sunny Deol scolding the paparazzi, he saw the Instagram Story by filmmaker Karan Johar who said the media should exercise some restraint. “I immediately called up my team and asked them to not go to Dharmendra’s residence any longer. Let them have some privacy. I immediately put it on my Instagram Story also that I’d asked my team not to go there any more. My team didn’t go there again till the news of Dharmendra’s passing,” added Chawla.

Around the same time, veteran actor Jaya Bachchan had also said she has zero equation with the paparazzi. “Who are these people? Are they trained to be representing the people of this country? You call them media? I come from media, my father was a journalist. I have immense, tremendous respect for such people,” she told Mojo Story.

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“But yeh jo bahar gande, tight pant pehnke, hath mein mobile leke (they were cheap tight pants and have a mobile in their hand), they think just because they have a mobile, they can take your picture and say what they want. And, the kind of comments they pass! What kind of people are these people? Kahan se aate hain, kis tarah ka education hai? Kya background hai? They will represent us? Just because they can get through to YouTube or whatever social platform?,” added Jaya.