Dhamaal 4 actress Anjali Anand calls the society ugly as she continues to receive criticism for the film having fat-shmaing jokes.
Written by: Nawaz Javed Kochra
5 min readMumbaiJul 16, 2026 06:12 PM IST
Anjali Anand hits back at influencer questioning her role in Dhamaal 4 (Photo: Anjali Anand / Instagram)
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The comic-caper Dhamaal 4 has been performing well at the box office, and has earned close to Rs 125 crores worldwide. While the film has been getting mixed reviews, its lead actress, Anjali Anand, is getting trolled for normalizing fat-shaming jokes with her film choices. Recently, in an exclusive interview with SCREEN, Anjali Anand spoke about body-shaming jokes in the film and the trolling that came with it. She also said if someone calls her fat, she calls them ugly. A few days back, a social media influencer slammed Anjali for a statement she made in the interview. Anjali reacted to the feedback and commented on the video.
Anjali Anand hits back at a social media influencer
A social media influencer, Soumya Dubey, shared a clip from SCREEN’s interview where Anjali said, “If someone calls me fat, I call them ugly because they are that inside-out and they are showing me that.” Reacting to this statement, Soumya said in her video, “Girl, what the hell are you talking about? I watched Dhamaal 4. I went for nostalgia, but what did I end up getting? I came out so disappointed. Every scene you were in, there were fat jokes all over; you were entering, there were elephant sounds in the background, and all the dialogue around you in the movie was fat-shaming jokes.”
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She further said in the video, “What are you even talking about? Did you call the director or the cast ugly? I am so sorry, you cannot choose scripts like this and end up talking like this on interviews. Seeing you tolerate people cracking such jokes, though it is fiction and humor, not at the cost of how you look. I really thought of you as an inspiration, you have a plus-size brand, you promote body positivity, and you end up doing a film where in every scene you are in, they crack jokes about how you look, and how fat you are.”
Reacting to Soumya’s video, Anjali Anand commented and wrote, “Yes, my love. Because society still is ugly. Go see the comments on my page, and you’ll get it. Nobody is going to write me a part until I put myself out there and show what I can do with my talent, so yes, I’m biting a bitter pill to run my house and put food on my table, and taking up projects that I’m getting. I do not have an option to choose what I want to do and what not. There aren’t directors lining up for me to give me parts.”
