What’s the one word that comes to your mind when you think of Esha Gupta? Sexy! This girl is insanely beautiful and a lot of people think she looks a lot like Angelina Jolie. When I met her recently, I asked her about it and she said that she takes that as a compliment but hates it when they end up comparing the two or call her a copycat. Fair! Esha has been breaking the Internet with some super hot photos of herself where she posed topless and in lingerie to promote a new lingerie line of hers… and it seems she ended up receiving a lot of hate comments for the same. Trolls on Instagram were quick to slut shame her – and it got so annoying – that she finally decided to block comments on her photos.

In a recent interview with Indian Express, Esha was asked about this and she had the most epic response!

The women, who wrote that negative stuff had a problem because they don’t have the confidence which I have and the men had issues because their manhood was shaken as they saw an Indian girl being bold. But that didn’t trouble me because it showed who they are than who I am. The only thing that troubled me was when they said I wasn’t an Indian, that ‘How come an Indian girl does this?’ I wanted to say that I am much more Indian than anyone else because my father at least served the nation, what did your father do? And at that time, I told myself to calm down. That was the only thing that bothered me.

She further added,

But then there was a whole section which went all out and wrote me fan emails. They said that it was great that I didn’t reply in a negative manner. Then I went and posted more pictures and even wrote under that, ‘Savage.’ I am looking beautiful. I love the pictures and I am going to post them. That’s it!

You go, girl! More power to you! It’s pathetic how we equate Indian-ness with behaving a certain way or looking a  certain way. About time we moved away from these farcical standards, don’t you think?

PS – We recently caught up with Esha and Emraan Hashmi to talk about their upcoming movie Baadshaho. Check it out.