Ranbir, Alia face backlash over former’s ‘beef’ comment
Ujjain, September 7: Brahmastra star cast Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt face backlash in Ujjain over former’s ‘beef’ comment. A protest was erupted while duo was entering the famous Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain to seek blessings ahead of release of their movie on September 9.
During their visit, the members of Bajrang Dal prevented Ranbir-Alia from entering the temple over the actor’s 11 year old comment that he likes beef. The video of the protest is doing the rounds on social media.
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While corroborating the incident, Mahakaleshwar officials had to resort to the cane charge in order to disperse the protestors. Apparently an old video of Ranbir Kapoor was dug by netizens where he said that he likes to eat beef and the actor has been facing subsequent backlash ever since the video is being circulated on social media.
Boosting the boycott trend which resulted in downfall of many Bollywood films at the box-office, #BoycottBrahmastra is trending on social media after the video has gone viral. Apparently Ranbir and Alia were not permitted to enter the premises and only Ayan was able to seek the blessings. Meanwhile Congress Rajya Sabha member Priyanka Chaturvedi took to twitter and wrote, "None of this photo op will help if you'll continue to be mute spectators to hate and believe it's not your business to talk politics. They will come after you anyway. Mahakaleshwar temple protests in Ujjain is a case in point. Shame that political prejudice is leading to such ugliness."
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Following the protest, the local police took the situation in their hands and section 353 of Indian Penal Code was imposed against the right-wing activists. "We are protesting against Ranbir Kapoor and won't let him enter the Mahakal temple. He made derogatory statements against our gaumata. He had said eating beef is good," said an activist.
-PTC News with ANI inputs
