mid-day editorial: World's not a dangal, leave Zaira alone
Updated On: 18 January, 2017 07:52 AM IST | | mid-day correspondent
<p>It is a jungle, err... dangal out there, and you need to survive. Zaira Wasim learnt this the hard way, both in her reel as well as real life</p>
It is a jungle, err... dangal out there, and you need to survive. Zaira Wasim learnt this the hard way, both in her reel as well as real life. The 16-year-old, who portrayed the role of a wrestler in the blockbuster Dangal, is now growing up tad faster than other teens, thanks to her fame, but no thanks to idle minds who have been targeting her for simply meeting Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.
In the last few days, Wasim has received death threats, been trolled heavily on social media platforms and forced to apologise on Facebook for no fault of hers. She also went on to explain that no one had forced her to apologise, but later she deleted that post. Her actions reveal the turmoil, the confusion in her mind. Perhaps now she realises that fame is a double-edged sword that can some times become impossible to carry.

