'How dare they?': Kangana Ranaut slams Bollywood celebs for making social media posts about Black Lives Matter
Actors such as Priyanka Chopra, Disha Patani, and Sonam Kapoor have all voiced support for the movement.
'How dare they?': Kangana Ranaut slams Bollywood celebs for making social media posts about Black Lives Matter , File Photo
Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut slammed Bollywood celebrities for their "hypocrisy" yet again. After Abhay Deol, Kangana has also slammed celebrities for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, but also endorsing fairness products in India.
In an interview with BBC, a video of which was also posted on her team's Instagram page, Kangana said, "The Indian celebrities they’ve been endorsing all kinds of fairness products and today shamelessly they stand and say black lives matter, I mean how dare they? Our industry even shies away from casting darker actors for characters that are supposed to be fair-skinned. Why is no one asking them about these million-dollar deals that they’ve been doing with all kinds of fairness products and how come suddenly all black lives matter because racism is deep-rooted and when you have commercialised such events that is the lowest humanity can hit."
Actors such as Priyanka Chopra, Disha Patani, and Sonam Kapoor have all voiced support for the movement and have also been called out online for promoting skin lightening products in the past. Speaking about herself, Kangana said that she has never endorsed any fairness products, "My sister (Rangoli Chandel) is dusky, yet beautiful. If I go ahead and be part of this campaign, then, in a way, I would be insulting her. If I can’t do that to my sister, then how can I do it to the entire nation?" she said.
Kangana, recently, had also slammed her peers for failing to denounce local injustices. "The Sadhu lynching happened a couple of weeks ago; still no one said a word. It happened in Maharashtra where most of these celebrities reside…Bollywood anyway is a derived name from Hollywood. It is a shame they [Bollywood celebrities] continue to live in a bubble and never fail to jump on the bandwagon, which can give them two minutes of fame, but ‘white people’ must drive the bandwagon. Perhaps, it is because of their pre-independence colonial slavery genes," she had said.