Overview
- At the We The Women event in Mumbai, Jaya Bachchan said her "relationship with paparazzi is zero" and questioned their professionalism, decorum and conduct.
- Top photographers have discussed withholding coverage of the Bachchan family, with uncertainty over Amitabh Bachchan’s public greets and attention for Agastya Nanda’s film Ikkis.
- Deccan Chronicle reported a claim of a collective decision to snub Ikkis, while other reports characterized the boycott as being weighed rather than finalized.
- Javed Akhtar voiced confidence in Agastya’s talent, and Shoojit Sircar and Mahesh Bhatt urged a respectful code of conduct between press and film fraternity.
- Photographer Manav Manglani said he instructed his team not to click unwilling subjects, as industry voices described a transactional ecosystem where celebrities often court paparazzi visibility.