{"id":359616,"date":"2026-03-26T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/359616\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:47:08","slug":"dhurandhar-2-arjun-rampals-girlfriend-gabriella-hits-back-at-shobhaa-des-aricle-criticising-the-dhurandhar-2-actor-for-saying-bharat-mata-ki-jai-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/359616\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhurandhar 2: Arjun Rampal’s girlfriend Gabriella hits back at Shobhaa De’s aricle criticising the ‘Dhurandhar 2’ actor for saying ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arjun Arjun Rampal<\/a> has been earning praise for his portrayal of Major Iqbal, an ISI officer, in Aditya Dhar<\/a>\u2019s ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’, also starring R Madhavan, Ranveer Singh<\/a>, Sanjay Dutt, Sara Arjun, Rakesh Bedi. Arjun has been in the news also for his recent comments during an awards show. For those not in the know, Rampal reflected on the success of ‘Dhurandhar’ and recalled his tragic experience of witnessing the 26\/11 attacks in Mumbai. Arjun revealed that November 26 is also his birthday. He said at HELLO! Hall of Fame Awards, \u201cOn my birthday, I saw the horrors of 26\/11 play out. In the morning, when I drove back home, I had to stop at least three times because I felt like I was going to be sick. When Aditya Dhar narrated the 26\/11 sequence to me, I knew I was going to have my revenge, and that\u2019s what I did with Dhurandhar. All I want to say is, Bharat Mata Ki Jai.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Dhurandhar 2 dominates box office, yet Aamir Khan and Vicky Kaushal haven\u2019t watched it His closing line drew sharp criticism from Shobhaa De, who addressed it in her column for The Print, titled \u2018Why Arjun Rampal saying \u2018Bharat Mata ki Jai\u2019 should worry Bollywood audiences.\u2019 In her piece, she expressed concern over what she perceived as a changing ideological climate in the film industry.\u201cThe agenda is no longer hidden, it is brazenly out there. The narratives are being manipulated and rescripted to exclude all those who don\u2019t subscribe to the ideology. Conversely, those who do are richly rewarded,\u201d she wrote.She further added, \u201cWhen stars start using platforms such as awards nights to display loyalty and demonstrate allegiance to filmmakers creating political myths for public consumption, it\u2019s time for alert audiences to assert their rights and call out the manipulators.\u201d \"Gabriella\" \u201cUntil then, perhaps movie awards will come with a caveat: Actors will be mandated to chorus \u2018Bharat Mata Ki Jai!\u2019, glittering trophy victoriously held up to catch the spotlight.\u201d The remarks quickly triggered reactions, with Arjun’s girlfriend Gabriella Demetriades hitting back in the comments section. She commented, \u201cThis is outrageous.\u201d Many others also slammed De for this piece. A user said, “What\u2019s the harm in saying \u201cBharat Mata ki Jai\u201d thinking of being liberal and elite doesn\u2019t mean we forget respecting nationalism.” Another one said, “She had earlier shown her support for Rampal and the film with a glowing Instagram post, writing, \u201cDhurandar day \u2026 saw it last night and have to say , it\u2019s my favourite Hindi film of all time. @rampal72 patience, persistence and positivity, you\u2019re always inspiring and always raising the bar . #adityadhar is a legend and @ranveersingh you\u2019re a star . The casting is a masterpiece @castingchhabra each and every person in the film is epic.\u201dAnother person wrote, “What do you mean \u2018over exaggerated Hindu Nationalist theme\u2019 ? Since when did being a Nationalist become a bad thing?- I think your writing is itself exaggerated. Fire your author.” Someone said, “Wow. How does someone saying “Bharat Mata ki Jai” becomes problematic to you guys? This is literally nationalism, irrespective of any religious agenda. How does being patriotic to the country one resides in becomes a point of contention to a select few? This is seriously mind boggling.” A user said, “Since when has \u2018Bharat Mata ki Jai\u2019 become a threat to anyone or any community in our country? I am sure the khan\u2019s @iamsrk @beingsalmankhan have always been and will always be the loudest to say \u2018\u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u092e\u093e\u0924\u093e \u0915\u0940 \u091c\u092f\u2019” A person said, “Lol. Now you can\u2019t say Bharatmata ki Jay in India. What a joke.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arjun Rampal has been earning praise for his portrayal of Major Iqbal, an ISI officer, in Aditya Dhar\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[174042,86640,66515,174040,100625,133435,146,174041,85,46,397,14446,130647],"class_list":{"0":"post-359616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-26-11-attacks","9":"tag-aditya-dhar","10":"tag-arjun-rampal","11":"tag-bharat-mata-ki-jai","12":"tag-dhurandhar-2","13":"tag-dhurandhar-the-revenge","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-gabriella-demetriades","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-movies","19":"tag-ranveer-singh","20":"tag-shobhaa-de"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}