Actor Kangana Ranaut has once again exposed the duplicity of her Bollywood colleagues when she questioned their silence on the Palghar Sadhu lynching while they went whole hog on social media expressing solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter campaign. In an interview given to online magazine Pinkvilla, she wondered that they might have joined the campaign because of the ‘pre independence slavery genes’.
Without mincing words, Kangana said, “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.”
Talking about Bollywood’s ‘selective outrage’, Kangana said how these celebrities would rather fight and side with a white teenaged kid but don’t have a word to say on Indian environmentalists who are doing exceptionally well without any support of help from anyone. “Some of them were honoured with the Padma Shri award. I was amazed to see their stories, but they never get the same acknowledgement from the industry. Perhaps, sadhus or tribal people aren’t fancy enough for the Bollywood crowd or their followers,” she told Pinkvilla.
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