Sita Ramam & Hi Nanna star Mrunal Thakur recalls getting body shamed, being called ‘village girl’: ‘Somebody told me…’

The gorgeous actress of the entertainment industry, Mrunal Thakur impressed us with her performances in Super 30, Sita Ramam, Batla House, Hi Nanna and others, recently spoke about being body shamed and called ‘village girl’.

In a recent interview, the Jersey actress shared how she was body shamed in one of the auditions and a photographer called her ‘village girl and apologised later. “Yes exactly. You are an actor… Somebody I met for a meeting told me, ‘Oh Mrunal, you are not sexy at all.’ I asked him if he was talking about the character or me as a person. He said the character is sexy, but he doesn’t see me anywhere close. I said in that case, do a look test sir and we did that. When the photographer entered, he didn’t see me as that character and said in Marathi, ‘Who is this village girl?’ Later he apologised,” the actress told Indian Express.

She added, “I have immense faith in my team, they transform you. As an actor, it is so important for me to be neutral, so that makers around me can mould me in those characters. When you talk about being ‘sexy’, I mean when I say that even the dead skin of my toe feels sexy to me. Sexy is a conversation you can have, but how many people can do that?”

Mrunal also spoke about her sassy reply, when she was asked to lose weight and said, “Also, it depends a lot on what is one’s definition of sexy. What is it that people want to see? When I did a song, people were like, ‘No don’t do these, you need to lose weight.’ I told them, ‘Listen, I have thick thighs and I own them. If I am not uncomfortable, why are you feeling that?’ There are of course makers who appreciate this. Primarily, I want to be a clay so that makers give me the shape they want for my character. Someone, while talking about a character, told me that it is something I would do even in my sleep. But it didn’t impress me, because why would I want to take up something that easy then.”