Regular readers will know that I used to be a huge Kangana Ranaut fan for her courage as well as her acting chops. But then her needlessly combative Twitter personality and the repetitive nature of the roles she has done in recent times caused me to revise my opinion. Ranaut has been in plenty of exceedingly public spats and the latest one has been her Twitter war with Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh.
Ranaut tweeted about an old woman who had joined the ongoing farmers’ protests; saying that this was the grandmother who was ‘available in 100 rupees’. Turns out, the two women in the image collage are not the same. While it is true that the ‘Dadi of Shaeenbaug’ Bilkis Bano (the woman on the left) had tried to join the protest, she was not allowed to. The bent-over old woman on the right of the image is someone else. This is the screenshot of Ranaut’s now-deleted tweet.
He told Ranaut not to ‘display her intelligence’ and to respect Punjabis as well as peaceful protestors and not to make statements and call people ‘terrorists’ without proof.
Diljit Dosanjh tweeted a video of Mahinder Kaur, the woman in the picture who was mistaken for being Bilkis Bano. Folks are clearly annoyed with Ranaut’s statement about a grandmother ‘available in 100 rupees’.
So she called him a ‘pet of Karan Johar’. There was a lot of back and forth on the issue and some amount of name-calling. This is something that the tweeple simply live for. Soon people had taken their respective sides and then #सब_पर_भारी_कंगना as well as #कंगना_चुपचाप_माफी_माँग were both trending.
Many cheered for Ranaut, calling her a lioness and this hashtag started to trend: #सब_पर_भारी_कंगना (translation Kangana is stronger than/defeats everyone).
…That Dosanjh had been humiliated and routed by Ranaut and the obvious support for her.
They were proud of Ranaut. One could look at that clip and say ‘overacting ki dukaan’ or one could appreciate how similar her heroics on-screen are to her fighting skills on Twitter.
For some reason, everything on Twitter generally degenerates into a war between the ‘right wing troll army’ and the libtards/librandus (liberals).
Seen here is a cartoon tweeted by Gippy Grewal, a popular musician with over 2M twitter followers.
…At the cost of those involved in the spat: Kangana Ranaut and Diljit Dosanjh as well as their respective supporters. So there ended yet another day; yet another Twitter spat. At the end of it all there may have been a few bruised egos, and strangely, both sides convinced of their own victory.
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