The attack on Sanjay Leela Bhansali brought the whole of Bollywood together. The Karni Sena ran riots on the sets of Bhansali’s Padmavati starring Shahid Kapoor, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone. That attack brought a shadow of doubt on the security of every single person in Bollywood and thus a unified fightback from Bollywood’s side was much needed.
Sushant Singh Rajput had earlier removed his Surname from his twitter handle to show his support for Sanjay Leela Bhansali and also to express his sorrow that he shared his Surname with the ones involved in that act of violence. However, Sushant got his Surname back on a day later and that meant that the twitter troll community had a reason to start off their usual game of jokes and abuses.
This is how twitteratis trolled Sushant and questioned him about his short-lived support in a manner that Sushant would have least exepected
https://twitter.com/bharathianand/status/825943720189161472
https://twitter.com/marutbharat/status/825936147457142784
unfollowed sushant singh rajput..not bcoz he dropped his surname for sum stupid reason but for flooding my TL with even more stupid rts
— Andy (@aindrila350) January 30, 2017
If Sushant Singh Rajput can inspire the Gandhis to drop their surname & adopt their original one, I would become his fan.@itsSSR
— Mahesh Jagga (@MaheshJagga) January 30, 2017
Sushant is not a man who would stay quite either! He replied to only a few tweets but answered almost every question raised by the twitteratis through them. This is how he replied a selected few twitteratis!
Well I respect my father and he knows it
surname is respect to our Father and forefathers. Due to some stupid act by some idiots dsn't mean we stop following them.
— Vishal Pratap (@Vishal_pratap91) January 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/itsSSR/status/825627668179668992
Beta Teri umar se zyada mere pass films hein
https://twitter.com/Sudippar/status/825730576208523265
https://twitter.com/itsSSR/status/825733486442975232
Read the interview bro.
hatss off to ur thinking sir but it doesn't means uh disrespect ur community like this just bcz of some ppl.
— RUPESH RANAWAT (@rupeshranawat24) January 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/itsSSR/status/825741932785655809
Not only that, he also slammed those “PAID TROLLS”
https://twitter.com/itsSSR/status/825897871501242368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
There was one person who tweeted “@itsSSR So why don’t you change your name too, if you don’t follow any religion then why a hindu name sushant?? remove that too”. Sushant’s reply made him delete it; check out…
https://twitter.com/itsSSR/status/825658608012505089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Sushant Singh Rajput in no way said that he doesn’t feel proud to be a Rajput and he only wanted to show that a few rogued spots do not represent the entire clan. Earlier, Sushant in an interview had explained why he removed his Surname and also why he put it back a day later. He said, “Yes, I did it for a day to show that the unfortunate action is not what everyone with that surname endorses. They do not represent the entire Rajputs. There are ways to express your ideas, but violence is never an answer, and that too just on mere speculation. I am not changing my name that was a way to express that I don’t endorse the view of a particular group which claims to be the representative of entire Rajputs and probably India.”
Indeed Sushant has done what a true Rajput would have done in this situation, stood up against the wrong! Sushant’s move was well appreciated by a lot of people and that too could be witnessed on Sushant’s timeline which is flooded with such tweets that Sushant himself retweeted.
Sushant is a witty man and we know all these Trolls are not enough to bog him down. Do let us know your views about this ‘Surname Row’ in our comments section below.