Swara Bhasker Hits Back at Trolls on ‘Veere Di Wedding’ Scene
Kareena Kapoor, Swara Bhasker, Shikha Talsania and Sonam Kapoor starrer Veere Di Wedding is reportedly among the top five openers of 2018. The female-centric film, which is bold (especially by Bollywood standards), has women openly discussing sex, manages to show a masturbation scene, besides the ladies cussing on screen, has become an invitation for trolls to raid Swara Bhasker’s timeline.
Here’s their “problem” with the film:
Using this template, which mirrors the one Swara and co. used to voice their opinion about the Kathua and Unnao rapes, they are attacking the actor for “embarassing Hindus”.
For some weird reasons, people who cant spell “Masturbation” are going to watch #VeereDiWedding with their Grandmothers and want answers from @ReallySwara pic.twitter.com/CAB1ab5b4O
— Joy (@Joydas) June 2, 2018
For some inexplicable reason, there seems to be a tremendous demand for Veere Di Wedding among Indian grandmothers, regardless of their alleged, consistent (word-to-word consistent!) opinion after the film. pic.twitter.com/VCn1wroHlf
— Karthik (@beastoftraal) June 2, 2018
Besides, of course, getting the spelling of ‘masturbation’ wrong.
A very amused Swara has been making light of the trolls and their ridiculous propaganda. “Looks like a certain IT cell sponsored the tickets - or definitely the tweets,” she said.
??????? Looks like a certain IT cell sponsored the tickets- or definitely the tweets !!!! ??♀️??♀️??♀️???? https://t.co/KIUqMoOLRG
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) June 2, 2018
???????? @Joydas you bring so much joy to my Twitter timeline.. I wish paid trolls would at the very least re-arrange the sentences and run a spell check before their paid tweet attacks #PaidTrollsKiPolKhulGayi #SakshiSlays https://t.co/pxHyjKthXH
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) June 2, 2018
In light of the Kathua and Unnao rape cases in April, these Veere actors had taken to social media to condemn the actions of the rapists. Holding placards with “I am Hindustan I am Ashamed” - these actors dared to speak their mind on social media. They got trolled for it, then. And they’re being attacked on social media, now.
Many people on Twitter are calling out the actions of the right-wing trolls.
Wow. The entire RW-bhakt gang is dating their Grandma this weekend? https://t.co/VA4kQU8NZP
— Prasanto K Roy (@prasanto) June 2, 2018
:) The IT cell keeps forgetting to spellcheck their memos. https://t.co/q1uSQ41bxE
— Anna MM Vetticad (@annavetticad) June 2, 2018
Hindus with Self Respect and Dignity responded. Veere Di Wedding got third highest opening day collection of the Year https://t.co/s5tNVHHLo2
— Joy (@Joydas) June 2, 2018
3rd biggest opening of the year in the 1st week alone. Clearly, Hindus aren’t paying attention to @ShefVaidya ji ☹️ pic.twitter.com/AjkQCYnIMb
— Prerna Bakshi (@bprerna) June 2, 2018
Shefali Vaidya had said all like minded people should boycott #VeereDiWedding. Pakistan banned it
— Joy (@Joydas) June 2, 2018
And then, there was this:
According to Sources, @KareenaOnline and @ReallySwara have requested Producers to give 2% of Profit to @ShefVaidya for selflessly promoting #VeereyDiWedding.
— Unofficial Sususwamy (@swamv39) June 2, 2018
This is not the first time Bhasker is being trolled on social media. The actor has, in the past, spoken her mind on several occasions. She wrote an open letter to filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali on Padmaavat.
While the right wing mob on social media called for a boycott of all the actors who had protested against the Kathua rape case because it was ostensibly “anti-Hindu” and “anti-national” (because of the mention of ‘devi sthan’ and ‘temple’), Bhasker prominently came under the line of their fire after Amazon India responded to a promotional tweet by the actor. Amazon, soon, deleted the tweet.
But Swara always has a strategy in place. Speaking about trolls, she had earlier told PTI,
"My way of dealing with social media trolls is to respond. I’m constantly involved in ‘quote retweet’, where you can quote and shame those people. You should never stay quiet if someone is trying to misbehave with you. Challenge it just like you would react on the street if someone misbehaves with you. You have to respond, you have to not let it slide and that’s what I do."
Two can play the game.
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