Kangana slams celebs for backing black rights

The actor spoke of celebrities ignoring grave issues of their own country

MUMBAI: Kangana Ranaut took a dig at Bollywood celebrities who are protesting the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, US, and taking part in the ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign, but preferred to stay mum when two ‘sadhus’ were lynched in Palghar.

“I feel it has become fancy to somehow be a part of this bandwagon which is relevant to the West. But if people see how the Asian celebrities and actors work, they are very impactful in this part of the country. I don’t know how they are participating in the socio-political reform of America. Just a few weeks ago, two sages were killed openly in a mob and were lynched to death. But unfortunately cops handed them over to the bloodthirsty mob. There was not a word from anyone. I think that would probably resonate with the majority Indian sentiments,” said Kangana, in an interview with ‘BBC’.

A video clip of the interview has been shared on the actor’s official ‘Instagram’ page.

The actor added: “When you politicise your compassion, your activism, your humanity, then you are also a part of the problem. The problem is selective compassion and I think that is what we are seeing here in India. Most celebrities are being called out on this that why there was no outrage over the monks because ‘sadhus’ are like monks. They were killed precisely because they were wearing saffron clothes. There is no outrage. Everybody is mum about it. I think the dissent is also being commercialised to look busy without work I’d say.”

“Like a fully developed super power and a developed nation like America, we also want to involve ourselves in their political issues, but we have so much to do here. We should take a lead from them and we should talk about our issues because every country has their own set of issues and we need to first deal within the house before we go out and try and reform the world. We are failing to do that,” she told ‘BBC’.