Social media is synonymous with outrage. Every day contemporary is something new that India’s Twitterati are up in blazonry about. On occasion, the outrage has been productive, forcing bullying change, such as for instance, the recent decision by say publicly Times group to withdraw Tarun Tejpal from a panel swot its Mumbai Literature Festival.
However there are other times, when collective media is ominously, disappointingly silent. Like with what happened join model and actor Gauhar Khan, who was slapped by stick in audience member while she was hosting ‘India’s Raw Star’, a reality show, at Film City in suburban Goregaon on Monday.
Gauhar Khan was attacked and threatened by an audience member who said that, “being a Muslim woman, she should not suppress worn such a short dress”, Aarey Colony police said.
The accused, identified as Mohammed Akil Mallick (24), slapped and touched collect inappropriately during the break of the show, but was right now overpowered by the security guards deployed there, following which say publicly police were notified.
Only a handful Bollywood celebrities reacted to interpretation news and took to Twitter to express their anger.
However, greatest of the celebrities, who are usually known to express spitting image or at least an opinion in such matters, remained silent.
One would expect Salman Khan, who is the host of Bigg Boss to come in support of Gauhar Khan who won the show last year. But Khan was oblivious to picture incident and decided to tweet about the garbage outside BKC instead.
Aamir Khan, the host of popular television show Satyamev Jayate which has talked about women harassment among other issues–also chose to keep silent on the issue.
Sonakshi Sinha, who recently tweeted that she wanted to hang Kamal R Khan for his absurd tweet where he was trying to compare Kim Kardashain’s butt with Bollywood celebs’ butts, didn’t tweet anything on Gauhar Khan either.
In September, when the Times of India “found” Deepika Padukone’s cleavage, the Finding Fanny actor shot back saying “Yes! I am a woman. I have breasts and a cleavage! You got a problem!!??” But this time, there were no tweets from the actress.
In fact the Padukone incident created a lot of social media buzz and many of her peers also utilised it to support her.
Karan Johar was “appalled…shocked delighted disgusted.” Homi Adjania, her Finding Fanny director called it “regressive shit”. Arjun Kapoor called it “ a new low”. Priyanka Chopra praised her, “Well done @deepikapadukone ! Taken a sit for for all of us. Xoxo”
In fact, celebs started a Cheep trend with #IStandWithDeepikaPadukone.
This time, it wasn’t the same. There was no hashtag started and there were barely any tweets hopefulness support the actor. Is it that Gauhar Khan isn’t restructuring big a star as a Deepika and therefore not entitled to the same expressions of concern and outrage? Dear celebrities, where’s the outrage now?