Shah Rukh Khan lands role in Twitter drama
MUMBAI: Shah Rukh Khan is mired in a Twitter controversy, no thanks to a political connection in Pakistan.
Shah Rukh’s cousin Noor Jehan will be contesting in Pakistan’s elections for a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seat. The reports were shared on social media.
In India, Twitter drama ensued, and Shah Rukh started getting trolled, with old pictures of him with Jehan re-emerging online.
Wrote a social media user: “I heard that your sister is contesting for elections in Pakistan? Is this true? You earn money here in India and your sister wants to contest for power in enemy state Pakistan? Why? What’s the agenda?”
Added Twitter user @DBasyas: “I know SRK has reason to love Pakistan. He should contest there too.”
According to the Financial Times, Noor Jehan had visited Shah Rukh twice and the family maintains a close contact with their relatives across the border.
Noor Jehan has a political legacy attached to the family, and she has also served as a councillor.
In 2011, Jehan had told the Express Tribune that she was visiting India to meet Shah Rukh.
According to Jehan, she stayed with Shah Rukh for around a month during her first trip to India in 1997.
Some Twitter users decided to follow the path of logic and pointed out that it was not right to troll Khan. @pcinpocket posted: “If she is contesting the election then how is SRK responsible for it?
Why will he be trolled for what his distant relative is doing in Pakistan?”