Kolkata:
Bengali actor Rituparna Sengupta — trolled just lately over a protest video she posted — was heckled yesterday when she had gone to participate within the “Reclaim the night time” protest march. Movies of the “Return” slogans and the next pummeling of her automobile by the group has been strongly criticised by artistes of the movie trade, who had thus far backed the protests over the rape-murder of a younger physician at a metropolis hospital final night time.
Ms Sengupta had confronted hostility from a bunch of protesters as she arrived in north Kolkata’s Shyambazar — one of many key protest venues.
When she tried to handle the group, she confronted offended protesters shouting “Return”. Because the state of affairs escalated, the police and Ms Sengupta’s bodyguards escorted her to her car, which then left the world.
In interviews to native dailies and tv channels, the actor had expressed her anguish, saying she was not related to any political occasion and had gone to face with the protesters as a citizen.
A lot of the anger directed on the actor was due to a video she posted on August 15. In it, she was seen blowing a conch after which delivering a protest message.
However folks identified that the visuals made it clear that she was not really blowing the conch and simply miming it. The sound, they claimed, was superimposed. Some even identified that the conch she was utilizing was the incorrect kind of conch — one that’s by no means used for blowing.
The collective conclusion of social media was that the actor was solely faking grief to hitch the bandwagon. Confronted with the barrage of criticism and disparaging memes, the actor had taken down the publish.
Ms Sengupta had just lately been questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the continued investigation into the multi-crore ration distribution rip-off. There was suspicion that the cash was being chanelled into her movies, sparking notion that she is near the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress.
