Bobby Deol’s career has undergone a resurgence with Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal. Today he is everywhere from Aryan Khan’s The Ba***ds of Bollywood to Thalapathy Vijay’s final film Jana Nayagan to Aditya Chopra’s Alpha to Anurag Kashyap’s Bandar. He is here by his choice ,but there was one place where he had to force himself to be and that is social media. For today’s actors, social media is a good way to connect with their fans but Bobby who began his career in the 90s was not very keen until an incident in foreign land made him do otherwise. In an exclusive interview with ETimes, the actor opened up about his relationship with social media, he said, “It took me a very long while to even have an Instagram account or a Twitter account. Especially Twitter because there were a lot of fake Bobby Deos on it who were writing all sorts of things. And I didn’t even know about it because I wasn’t on Twitter. I was in Singapore once and one person came up to me and said, that was such a great answer to the politician you gave. I’m like, what did I say? Then I told my manager, let’s get an Instagram, let’s get a Twitter account and do all that because there’s so many people who take advantage of that.” The actor also opened up about how his manager has guided him through the social media journey and helped him make decisions he might not have taken on his own. “When your manager is new and just joined you, then they come up with ideas which you find a little weird because they don’t know you as a person. But eventually when they get to know you, then they know exactly how to approach a topic and how to convince you to do it. That’s their job basically. But then they will speak to you in such a way that they tell you the importance of it and then they convince you in a very sweet way. So you end up doing so many things which is not really what you believe in. Like for me, as an actor, I don’t want to think about social media but it’s become part and parcel of us being in this industry.” he explained. Through these experiences, Bobby has learned to balance his personal comfort with the demands of being a public figure, trusting his manager’s guidance while navigating the digital world.
