MUMBAI: Abhay Deol and Sonam Kapoor engaged in a Twitter battle on Wednesday when the latter reacted to Abhay’s Facebook post on Bollywood actors endorsing fairness products.
Abhay Deol, known for his roles in ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’, ‘Dev.D’, and ‘Aisha’ has been quite pumped up on triggering a debate on a social taboo “whiter skin is better skin”, and has been actively pursuing the issue of racism on his social channels.
One of his Facebook posts read: “There’s a lot more of these campaigns that are blatantly, and sometimes subtly, selling you the idea that whiter skin is better than darker skin. No one at the top of their game in any field is going to tell you that it is demeaning, false, and racist”.
Deol has recently slammed Bollywood celebrities that have been endorsing fairness creams and promoting the white skin idea. He criticized Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham, Shahid Kapoor, Vidya Balan, and Sonam Kapoor but did not mention his sister, Eesha Deol, who has been a part of such campaign equally.
His, ‘Aisha’ and ‘Raanjhana’ co-star was clearly mocked for endorsing an international product, he wrote, “But L’Oreal is an international brand, do they show the same racism around the world that they are clearly showing here in India?”
While others remained inaudible for the cause, one of the victims, Sonam Kapoor, offended by Abhay Deol remarks lashed back with a tweet trolling Abhay Deol.
Sonam tweeted posting a picture of his sister endorsing for the fairness cream advertisement saying, “I appreciate and concur with your views and would like to know your thoughts on this as well.”
But, to a lighter note, Abhay stayed calm and composed and replied Sonam’s tweet with, “Is wrong too. For my views, read my post.”
The fierce twitter battle between the two remained on-going for a while where Sonam clarified her stance on the product endorsement mentioning, "I shot this campaign ten years ago and didn’t understand the ramifications. Thank you for bringing this to the forefront.”
But quick to justification and confession Sonam deleted her tweets while Abhay replied to Sonam’s tweet, “More power to you sonamakapoor maybe you can use your power as well to take this further than the forefront.”
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Surprisingly, Sonam deleted her tweets later for an unknown cause. Sonam has been very enthusiastic about social issues and quickly took notice of this newly initiated cause by Abhay Deol.
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