Mast Mast girl Raveena Tandon on Saturday posted a photo clad in beautiful sari and fine jewellery on Twitter. But minutes after she posted the tweet with her photo, the actor began facing incessant trolling.
That’s because of the provocative content published in Tandon’s tweet.
Her tweet said, “A sareee day … will I be termed communal,Sanghi,bhakt,hindutva icon?if I say I love wearing the saree and I think it’s the most elegant.
A sareee day … will I be termed communal,Sanghi,bhakt,hindutva icon?if I say I love wearing the saree and I think it’s the most elegant??? pic.twitter.com/3ZYDJcyKJk
— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena) June 10, 2017
Soon she was inundated with messages critical of her and her bigoted views with many even suspecting that Tandon may have deliberately asked for controversy since she hasn’t been in a limelight for a long time.
This prompted her to issue an apology. Her next tweet said, “Saree is a beautiful Elegant Indian Garment.My Tweet was NOT to communalise Saree.Was my fear of being trolled to say I love anything Indian. If it has come across as anything else.I apologise.That was not the intention.Had not thought that it would be misunderstood the way it has.”
https://twitter.com/TandonRaveena/status/873519211989139457
Saree is a beautiful Elegant Indian Garment.My Tweet was NOT to communalise Saree.Was my fear of being trolled to say I love anything Indian
— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena) June 10, 2017
Tandon has been vocal with her communal and pro-BJP views in the recent past, making her a villain even among those who once adored her as an actor.
In November, while attacking Aamir Khan for sharing his wife’s fear on the growing religious intolerance in India, Tandon had said, “Let’s cut the BS-why can’t these people openly say that they weren’t happy since d day Modi became PM..instead of shaming the whole country.”
Here are some of what Twitter users said;
I suggest @smritiirani give @TandonRaveena a crash course on #saris as I'm sure the minister knows who weaves, designs many.
— Saba Naqvi (@_sabanaqvi) June 10, 2017
can someone please give raveena tandon some work to do
— Rega Jha (@RegaJha) June 10, 2017
MENSA genius alert: saris now have a religion & it is "communal, Sanghi, Bhakt" poor saris https://t.co/x79QLJGnlR
— Swati Chaturvedi (@bainjal) June 10, 2017
Raveena wanted attention,she tweeted something stupid ,all of us reacted to it & the lady must be smiling away ??♀️
— K (@drpiscean) June 10, 2017
Unnecessary politicisation of a piece of clothing & false sense of victimhood. A lot of women, inc me, wear sarees & are not termed anything https://t.co/p5K6gBnj2B
— Ruhi Tewari (@RuhiTewari) June 10, 2017
Actually the sari is a symbol for all Indians, it's beautiful. Keep your narrow minded politics out of it https://t.co/itN6QCUfJR
— Nidhi Razdan (@Nidhi) June 10, 2017
Irrespective of what you wear, we know what you are. I don't judge a person by his dress or address. I Listen instead. https://t.co/tIxsTGgKZX
— SANJAY HEGDE (@sanjayuvacha) June 10, 2017
She could have just posted her pic in saree.
But like a typical communal, Sanghi, bhakt, she gave a colour to smthing as neutral as saree ? pic.twitter.com/IWyBtQ8ymb— कोमल 🙂 ?? (@Komal_Indian) June 10, 2017