Anushka Sharma : No catfight with Deepika Padukone
The ad world is becoming more and more lucrative for actors and actresses trying to make money away from the box office. And with it comes several rumours about actors/actresses trying to outdo each other.
On a similar note, there was some gossip doing the rounds that Anushka Sharma had slashed her endorsement fee in order to snatch a deal away from Deepika Padukone.
However, the actress is furious that someone should try to malign her name and states that her “army background” would never allow her to stoop low.
Anushka Sharma said, “There is absolutely no catfight. People just try and drag you into issues. It’s not my problem that people try to pick actresses at random and create wars between them. I have nothing against anybody.”
The actress said that she is “too dignified” about her professional work, and added, “It shows poorly on my upbringing. I don’t fight with other girls over things and I don’t need to do that either. I remain dignified about the way I carry myself.”
She also feels that she has sufficient endorsement deals in her kitty right now and that she does not need to slash her fee to steal someone else’s ad.
“I find it very cheap to be saying I have X number of ads. I don’t need to slash my price. Period,” she said.
Catfight
Catfight (also girl fight) is a term for an altercation between two females, often characterized as involving scratching, slapping, punching, biting, hair-pulling, and shirt-shredding. It can also be used to describe women insulting each other verbally or engaged in an intense competition for men, power, or occupational success. The catfight has been a staple of American news media and popular culture since the 1940s, and use of the term is often considered derogatory or belittling. Some observers argue that in its purest form, the word refers to two women, one blonde and the other a brunette, fighting each other. However, the term is not exclusively used to indicate a fight between women, and many formal definitions do not invoke gender.
Catfight etymology
The term catfight was recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary as the title and subject of an 1824 mock heroic poem by Ebenezer Mack. In the United States, it was first recorded as being used to describe a fight between women in an 1854 book written by Benjamin G. Ferris who wrote about Mormon women fighting over their shared husband. Their houses, according to Ferris, were designed to keep women “as much as possible, apart, and prevent those terrible catfights which sometimes occur, with all the accompaniments of billingsgate (vulgar and coarse language), torn caps, and broken broomsticks.” The word cat was originally a contemptuous term for either sex, but eventually came to refer to a woman considered loose or sexually promiscuous, or one regarded as spiteful, backbiting, and malicious.
Mid-Day.com | Friday, January 04, 2013
