Video of the week: Deepika Padukone's JNU visit during Delhi leg of Chhapaak promotions was the biggest highlight

The JNU attacks have shaken the entire nation. For the uninitiated, a mob of masked men recently entered the JNU campus and brutally attacked students and staff, leaving them badly injured. Many celebrities like Anurag Kashyap, Swara Bhasker, Sudhir Mishra, Vishal Bhardwaj, Rekha Bhardwaj, Anubhav Sinha, Dia Mirza, Rahul Dholakia, Ali Fazal, Neeraj Ghaywan, Reema Kagti, Hansal Mehta, Vikramaditya Motwane, Saurabh Shukla, Rajkumar Gupta, Zoya Akhtar, Taapsee Pannu and Richa Chadha, have voiced their concern over the attack on students. Deepika Padukone who was in Delhi for the promotions of her film Chhapaak visited JNU to support the students. She was on the JNU campus for about 10 minutes and the actress apparently left without saying anything.

The actress arrived at Sabarmati T-Point in the university where a public meeting was being held. The meeting had been organised by the JNU students' union and the teachers' association against the attack on students by masked men and women armed with lathis and iron rods. However, Deepika Padukone did not address the crowd. She stood by as former JNUSU president, Kanhaiya Kumar raised slogans and left just as current President Aishe Ghosh, who too was injured in the attack, began to speak. Soon after this video went viral there were a lot of mixed reactions to it. #BoycottChhapaak has been trending on Twitter as many have argued that Deepika would never have turned up at JNU had she not been in Delhi for Chhapaak promotions. Some even claimed that her appearance was a mere publicity stunt. Deepika has received a lot of backlash after her visit and people have been calling her "Anti-national", "Urban Naxal", "Pakistani". Some have even posted pictures of cancelled movie tickets of her film Chhapaak. However, there are certain sections of people who are not blinded by the one-sided story and have taken Deepika's pov as well. There have been times when Deepika has been threatened by a group of people for doing a historical drama, she has always been on the knife's edge, given the fact that she is a celebrity. She has been asked to give opinions on matters that she may not be fully aware of and shamed when she refused to comment. Many celebrities came out in support of the actress. Take a look at the video:

#Bollywood just got JNU-ised!!!!! :) ???????? #LongLiveJNU #JNUProtests pic.twitter.com/MXyLBBck67

Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) January 7, 2020

 

So #DeepikaGoesToJNU and BJP wants to boycott her..

Fact is whether or not she went to JNU, Bhakts, who anyways abuse, threaten, and humiliate women on social media, were least expected to have an impact on #Chhapaak..#IndiaStrikesAgainstModiGovt#JNUattack#ISupportDeepika pic.twitter.com/c2hTQ41C7C

Vinay Kumar Dokania?? | (@VinayDokania) January 7, 2020

 

Talking about Chhapaak, the actress is very well aware of the fact that there will be repercussions after her visit to JNU. Still, she went without much thinking about her thin chances she will be taking for such an important film.

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