Bobby Deol’s career has seen a resurgence with Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal. Today, he is everywhere from Arya Khan’s The Ba***DS Bollywood to Thalapathy Vijay’s latest film Jana Nayagan to Aditya Chopra’s Alpha to Anurag Kashyap’s Bandar. He is here by choice, but there was one place he had to force himself to be, and that was social media. For today’s actors, social media is a good way to connect with their fans, but Bobby, who started his career in the 90s, wasn’t very keen until an accident in a foreign land forced him to do otherwise. In an exclusive interview with ETimes, the actor opened up about his relationship with social media, he said, “It took me a really long time 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 a person came up to me and said, that was such a great response to a politician that 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 everything because there are so many people who are using it.” The actor also revealed how his manager has guided him on his social media journey and helped him make decisions that he might not have made on his own. “When your manager is new and just joined you, they come up with ideas that seem a little strange to you because they don’t know you as a person. But eventually, when they get to know you, they know exactly how to approach the subject and how to convince you to do it. That’s basically their job. But then they’ll talk to you in a way that they’re telling you how important it is, and then they convince you very sweetly. So you end up doing so many things that aren’t really what you believe in. Like for me as an actor, I don’t want to think about social media, but it’s become a part of us in this industry,” he explained. Through this experience, Bobby has learned to balance his personal comfort with the demands of being a public figure, trusting his manager’s guidance as he navigates the digital world.
