Deepika shows up at JNU to support students protesting against govt - Page 31

Originally posted by: Bandwagon-er

Two things. Since there is a conflation of issues here.

1. If there was to be an attack on a nukkad college by masked goons. I would protest against that. I would laud deepika Padukone for supporting protests against that. So for me there is no difference in a nukkad college and JNU. I am against what happened in AMU, what happened in Jamia, what happened in IIT Kanpur, and what happened in JNU. They are all equal for me. I am against the government using under handed tactics and/or brute force to silence protestors. What the protestors were protesting is irrelevant (caa/NRC/fee hike/kashmir). So i don’t want to get into the debate of what would have been the best way to tackle the fee hike issue.

2. I (and i speak only for myself) feel much more strongly for certain issues than for others. For me a protest against caa/nrc is more sensitive and immediate than a protest against fee hike. I do agree with a fellow poster who said education should be free for all. I do think we need a centre of left party which can provide basic social amenities like health and education to all. But i feel that there are more immediate threats like the secular fabric of the country being destroyed that need urgent attention.

The protest had started in the name of fee hike but it is obvious now that the leftist agenda seems to be different

If the goons/attackers were masked how can anybody know the identity, but atmosphere is being created as if any leftist-communist entity cannot attack other students. These entities are known world over as the most intolerant ideologies. If it is not known who attacked then benifit of doubt should be given to all.

The protests against CAA are even more ridiculous. CAA does not threaten secular fabric in any way. It is for persecuted minorities in 3 Islamic countries. And funnily enough those countries don't have a problem with CAA.

Originally posted by: mintyblue

I think you mean "blind bhakts" like you.

One more personal attack.

Yeah ok, sir/ma'am/whatever you are, whatever floats your boat.

The Pakistani propogandist's claim trumpeting about how minorities in Pakistan are safe is quite delusional, ridiculous and smacks of them having mental issues,

The Drastic decline of Pakistani Minorities

https://www.dawn.com/news/737877

Plight Of minorities.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1453461

Minorities at risk

https://www.dawn.com/news/1452941

Can Pakistan do anything to protect it's minorities

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/03/a-pakistani-columnist-on-the-lahore-bombing-and-extremism.html

I had given up on Bollywood celebrities having a spine. But DP and many others finally showed up.

But turns out all the balls in Bollywood are with the women.

Of course, many men have spoken out too - but none of the main heroes are saying anything. They are all silent zeroes.

If she would have protested at a time with no film of hers releasing then her detractors would have said - " She is doing all this to keep herself in the news as she is jobless " - Yes this would have been the reasoning given then...😆

As per my practical understanding , she is a big name , a household name...a reporter rightly said...her pictures standing with the students will be on the front pages tomorrow... People will read , take notice ...it sets a narrative...it helps the students be shown in the right light ...every little support helps ❤️

To all the crazens reading this - She will be trolled in the worst manner possible on social media...checking her mentions would surely sadden you ...but when you all will look back at this after some years ...you all will be proud of her...😎

I guess the film hasn't turned out well as much as they might have expected. Multi-release is one excuse and now this , if the film does not do well at the BO.

Also the leftist-communist psuedo-reviewers will now give rave reviews to her film. She has fallen in line and she will get her reward.

Originally posted by: NimbuMirchi

Omg. Ek teer so many nishaan.

So if it works, despite boycott — stardom.

If it doesn’t work coz of poor script — Boycott.

On the side browny points from media and social media for being woke. 👏 Mad respect.

This is true the opposite way too

If it works - poora controversy pe chala movie like Padmaavat, PR queen, opportunistic, despo DP

If it doesn't work - movie bakwaas and boring thi, opening ke liye PR drama kiya but audiences not interested

And brownie points and woke image counts for very little in reality - despite Akshay being mocked to heavens on social media and getting exposed for his foreign citizenship, he is on a golden run now currently, every movie of his somehow becomes a certified hit. The handful of ~woke~ actors like Swara madam on the the other hand are out of work or pop up in side-character roles here and there. The same people tweeting some hashtag in support of DP will forget in a few days or even turn against her because of some idiotic thing she will inevitably say in the future.

There are a lot of paid trends being done in Deepika's favor. BBC's tweet even credited Spice PR for distributing Deepika's picture at the protest. Still if it helps anyone, it's good, even if it's not done with the purest of intentions.

People should stop trying to compare to the Khans to put them down because Deepika is a Hindu and will never face what they do. She won't be called a terrorist or desh dhrohi or told to go to Pakistan. At the end, she is still family for the bhakts and everything will be forgiven and forgotten in a month. The boycott will also just be grandstanding on twitter and nothing on the ground.

No amount of PR can help a film if it is bad.

Originally posted by: rkisnothot

There are a lot of paid trends being done in Deepika's favor. BBC's tweet even credited Spice PR for distributing Deepika's picture at the protest. Still if it helps anyone, it's good, even if it's not done with the purest of intentions.

People should stop trying to compare to the Khans to put them down because Deepika is a Hindu and will never face what they do. She won't be called a terrorist or desh dhrohi or told to go to Pakistan. At the end, she is still family for the bhakts and everything will be forgiven and forgotten in a month. The boycott will also just be grandstanding on twitter and nothing on the ground.

Even if we consider that as a good excuse for their silence, Khans are not the only superstars of the country, are they? For instance how about the Bachchans, the baap of Khans?