"All the noise (is) on social media, right?
Sara Arjun has addressed the age gap chatter surrounding her pairing with Ranveer Singh in Dhurandhar, calling the experience positive and justified within the story.
The 20-year-old plays Yalina Jamali, the daughter of a scheming Pakistani politician.
She soon falls for Hamza Ali Mazari, played by 40-year-old Ranveer.
The casting sparked online debate due to the 20-year age gap between the pair.
Critics questioned Bollywood’s long-standing trend of older male stars being cast opposite much younger women, fuelling wider conversations about power dynamics, representation, and industry norms.
Sara revealed that she remained largely unaffected by the backlash, explaining that she had deliberately distanced herself from social media ahead of the film’s release.
In an interview with NDTV, she said: “All the noise (is) on social media, right?
“And I’m not very active. I didn’t partake in it much… I also feel everybody has an opinion. I really believe in ‘live and let live’.
“It’s their opinion. It doesn’t do anything to how I think… I knew the story and I knew it was justified and that’s it.”
Sara linked her limited online presence to her upbringing and boarding school education, which kept her away from digital distractions.
She continued: “I’m a bit far away from all these things… My parents show me nice things and I enjoy it… I’m still very inactive on social media and when it comes to reading social media news and all.
“This was all pre release, so at that time, I was barely checking anything.
“The boarding school that I was in, we didn’t really have any devices during the course of our education. And when I came out, I got so busy, and I didn’t develop the habit for it.
“So, I don’t have that habit yet. And I like that about me… I go on it when I really need to be on it and either post, when I want to say something.
“Otherwise for my entertainment, I choose other things. Whenever I get free time, I just go on a trip. I can’t sit in one place.”
Praising Ranveer Singh as a co-star, Sara Arjun added:
“No matter who I work with in the future, I don’t think anybody can top Ranveer, he has set the bar so high.
“As an actor, he’s so involved in his own craft, but he also takes care of the whole set.
“He looks at it (filmmaking) as teamwork. He’s equally involved in what you are doing, and equally involved in what the person on set was designing, the set is doing.
“So those things really matter. He carries all of us together.”
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