Photographer gets Jaya Bachchan's ire for taking pictures without permission

A student got Jaya Bachchan’s ire after he took her picture without her permission.

Jaya, who is never scared to speak her mind, was attending the Narsee Monjee annual festival in conservation with noted film critic Bhawana Somayaa.

Pictures that students in the audience at the Mumbai college took of her made Jaya tell them off. “Please stop taking pictures. I hate it because it’s right into my eyes. These are basic manners which we Indians have to learn. Just because you have a camera and a mobile, you have the freedom of take anyone’s picture anytime, without asking that person! These are basic educations that all colleges and schools and parents at home should teach their children. It’s very annoying. I have a freedom to say no from being photographed. I am trying to chat here. You are sitting right in front of me, clicking right into my eyes. I hate indiscipline,” an irritated Jaya said.

At one point she left the stage.  “Aap photo kheech lijiye phir main baat karungi.”

It didn’t stop here. “That’s why I never go to such functions because I am an extremely outspoken person... You have to show how professional you are by organizing it in a simple but in a good way. Basic courtesy is you ask, ‘do you mind if we call the press’, ‘do you mind if the pictures are taken’. I’m not against the media, I’m not against the media taking pictures. But there’s time for everything. I’m sorry for sounding like a great grandmother but that’s what I am.”

In 2013 Jaya made headlines when she told reporters off for calling her daughter-in-law by her first name Aishwarya. “Does she study in your class?” she told reporters.