Days After Shefali Jariwala Death, Publicist Parag Desai Schools Paps For 'Insensitive' Celeb Funeral Coverage

Publicist Parag Desai Calls Out Paparazzi For Celeb Funeral Coverage: Cameras, celebrities and chaos... Over the years, the 'paparazzi' culture has witnessed a huge upward trend in the media. From shaadis to antim sanskaars, they are everywhere. While Bolly buffs often get the inside scoop of what's happening in their fav celebs' personal lives from pap videos, sometimes the shutterbugs get called out for crossing the line. A similar thing happened recently with the viral 'Kaanta Laga' girl Shefali Jariwala's demise. And it has happened before as well. Recently, Varun Dhawan slammed the paparazzi for their 'insensitive' coverage of the Bigg Boss 13's last rites and funeral. Now, renowned publicist Parag Desai has strongly condemned the paparazzi culture in India and schooled them for their coverage of celebrity funerals.

Parag Desai Calls Out Paparazzi For Their 'Insensitive' Coverage Of Celeb Funerals

It's been a few days since the shocking and tragic demise of 42-year-old Shefali Jariwala and several videos from her 'antim darshan' and funeral are still dominating our Instagram feed right now. In one of the videos, late Shefali's husband Parag Tyagi was seen urging the paparazzi for privacy.

Meanwhile, recently, publicist Parag Desai, who has worked with Bollywood A-listers like Ajay Devgn, Kajol, Shahid Kapoor and Sunny Deol among others, called out the paps and penned a lengthy note urging everyone to "Pause and Reflect on the Paparazzi Culture". He captioned his post, "Request media to keep dignity and let the family grieve 🙏"

In the Instagram post, he requested the "senior members of the media, photographers and the film fraternity to come together and draw some boundaries." He also urged them to stop covering "funerals and last rites like red carpet events" and allowing the families to "mourn in peace".

Netizens React To Parag Desai's Latest Instagram Post

Netizens have been applauding publicist Parag Desai for speaking out on this matter. Reacting to his Instagram post, one of the netizens wrote, "Parag this is so right 👏🙌", while another user replied, "Thank you for putting this out 🙏🏻".