In another set of controversy, Kangana Ranaut’s sister, Rangoli Chandel has targeted Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy, and the character of Safeena, played by Alia Bhatt. In response to the criticism received by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, Kabir Singh’s director for what he said in his interview with Anupama Chopra, Rangoli defended him and saying that Safeena was a more violent, abusive and criminal than Kabir Singh.
“yeh jo berozgaar anpadh gawar feminazi jo Kabir Singh pe kood pade hai, Inko Gully Boy ke Safeena @aliaa08 mein kuch burai nahin lagi, she was violent, abusive and criminal beyond Kabir can ever be,” she wrote.
She further said, “(Contd)...every time her boy friend slept with another woman please note she never said anything to him, woh Raja beta hai, but she broke bottles on woman’s head, they are hospitalised and criminal cases were put on Safeena. woman against woman, if your man cheats on you don’t want to talk to you not take your calls go beat up the woman he likes, yeh sab feminist ispe khade hokar taliyaan marte hain... socho !! .”
Talking about her sister’s film, Rani Laxmi Bai, Rangoli said, “ Weeks apart Rani LaxmiBai &Gully Boy come, not a single word from feminazi about LaxmiBai’s feminism!! kyun because she is a Maratha Hindu woman?In Sanju, @RajkumarHirani Sir shows criminal underworld of 80s 90s bollywood no mention of Dawood, Chota Shakeel, Abu Saleem..(contd).”
She didn’t even stop there, but took more digs at Sanju. “(Contd)...in the name of mafia one Marathi don wearing teeka and rudraksh shown and his crime is that he puts Ganpati pandals... wah!!! What to say to this Hindu phobic industry aur unke chatukar yeh berozgaar media ...(contd),” she added.
Finally she asked people to not criticize Sandeep Reddy Vanga and wrote, “ I urge all outsiders to protect @imvangasandeep sir, He is no different than @ZoyaAkhtarOff so no step motherly treatment for him please.”
This is clearly not the first time, Rangoli has taken to Twitter to make such remarks. Recently, she had called out Deepika Padukone’s The Live Love Laugh Foundation for allegedly trivialising depression and piggybacking on mental illness for publicity.
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