Sayani Gupta and Shah Rukh Khan
Actress Sayani Gupta’s comments come in the wake of the deaths of two Dalit women after they were allegedly gang-raped in Hathras and Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh.
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Actress Sayani Gupta mocked Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh for his stoic silence on the current situation in the country. Shah Rukh tweeted a photo of her children on Friday to commemorate the Father of the Nation, the 151st anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth. The photo shows his daughter Suhana and son AbRam doing the ‘Gandhi ji three monkeys’ pose with another girl.
“If this Gandhi Jayanti there is an ideal that we would like our children to follow, in good times, in bad times and all the time … it should be not hearing bad … not seeing bad … not speaking bad! Remembering the value of truth on the 151st anniversary of Gandhiji’s birth, ”Shah Rukh tweeted alongside the image.
Citing his tweet, Sayani urged him to “speak for the truth” and not “just close your ears, eyes and mouth.” She wrote: “Say something. The right thing to do. Gandhi also taught us to defend the Truth, the oppressed, the exploited, for our Dalit brothers and sisters.”
Say something. The right thing. Gandhi also taught us to defend the Truth, the oppressed, the exploited, for our Dalit brothers and sisters. Don’t just close your ears, eyes, and mouth. @iamsrk https://t.co/IChzz2k5n0
– Sayani Gupta (@sayanigupta) October 2, 2020
Sayani’s comments come in the wake of the deaths of two Dalit women after they were allegedly gang-raped in Hathras and Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh. It has caused a furor across the country, with hundreds and thousands of protesters taking to the streets to demonstrate against the “increasing incidence” of caste crime in the country.
Sayani worked with Shah Rukh in the 2016 movie Fan, which sees SRK in double roles as movie star Aryan Khanna and obsessive fan Gaurav Chandna, who look just like each other.
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