Mumbai: A video of Anushka Sharma pulling up a fellow citizen for littering has gone viral. The video, taken by the star’s husband, cricketer Virat Kohli, shows Anushka questioning the man’s behaviour.
While most of the internet went crazy about the video, making it go viral in no time, there were some who saw it as a publicity stunt and called the star couple out for the way they handled the incident.
The man who was at the receiving end of Anushka Sharma’s verbal barrage, took to Facebook to stand up for himself. The man, identified as Arhhan Singh, after admitting his mistake of littering, questioned the behaviour of the star couple, especially the crass language used by Anushka Sharma.
“… Mrs AnushkaSharma Kohli a little etiquette and politeness in ur dialogue wouldn’t have made u a lesser star !! There are all kinds of manners and hygiene .. verbal etiquette is one of them ! The garbage that mistakenly went out of the window of my luxury car… Was way less then the garbage that came out from your mouth… From ur luxury car’s window… Or the trashy mind Viratkohli to shoot annd post this online… For whatever gains… (sic)” he wrote on his Facebook wall.
Arhhan’s mother also jumped to his defence, taking to Instagram to give a voice to her rage.
“@anushkasharma @virat.kohli The last thing we would want is to get publicity out of your cheap STUNT in the name of CLEANLINESS! You both posted a video for your fans n followers by VIOLATING Basic Rights to privacy &you shamed my son in the video as well in your post content you both may be who you are in your fields, with millions of followers & all the PR backing you… you may be payed for your campaigning or maybe doing it for sheer publicity. As a mother,I would like to state that you have not only shamed my son @arhhansingh on social media by not blurring his face, but youve also exposed him to unwanted hostility…. and danger from fanatics for such a small thing that you claim he has done but have no proof of anyways ? I am concerned about my sons SAFTEY !!! (sic)”
While we cannot know for sure if what Anushka and Virat did was for mere publicity, we must not forget that there are always two sides to a story. Littering is wrong… we all can agree on that but, it can be argued that the way the star couple handled the situation lacked common courtesy.
Like Arhhan’s mother pointed out, the decent thing the star couple could have done was to blur out the Arhhan’s face. They have a huge fan following and it is up to them to set a good example when it comes to how one needs to treat others.
