Shibani Dandekar and Farhan Akhtar may have been together for seven years now, but their early days of dating wasn't without its share of turmoil. They appeared together on Rhea Chakraborty's podcast Chapter 2, where Shibani talked about getting trolled on social media when she began dating Farhan. (Also Read: Before Don 3 and Jee Le Zaraa, Farhan Akhtar to shoot for military action film 120 Bahadur.
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but when I started my relationship with Farhan, it used to be ‘love jihad’ and ‘gold-digger.’ These were the two main things that people used to say to me. What am I supposed to do with that? Say it (shrugs).
I'm not going to cry myself to sleep just because people are saying these things. I'm not a gold-digger. The truth of the matter is he comes from a Muslim home or a Muslim background, and I do come from a Hindu home, and we got married and we're very happy with our marriage.
That's the reality of our situation. So you can say whatever you want about us. It is what it is,” Shibani said.
What Farhan said Farhan supported Shibani's argument, comparing the personal trolling to that of a film. “If the intention is to hurt, then why take it seriously? There are times where they'll write, say the review of a film, and a film they may have or may not have liked. That review, we could learn something from it, if it's written about the film.
‘These were the points in the film that w.