Saiyaara actress Aneet Padda has found herself in the middle of a controversy after her sister, Reet Padda, heavily criticised Dhurandhar 2 on social media, calling the film a \u201cpropaganda\u201d and questioning its message.<\/p>\n
Screenshots of Reet\u2019s comment on a post in response to an Instagram user have gone viral, leading to her turning her account private after immense trolling by fans of the movie.<\/p>\n
While explaining why the Ranveer Singh-starrer Dhurandhar and the Anupam Kher starrer The Kashmir Files are \u201cpropaganda\u201d, Reet wrote, \u201cFor Dhurandar, it literally serves as a government-friendly narrative, using political speeches to justify, say, the minor hiccup of demonetisation. Call it propaganda? Yep. Deny it? Not a chance. But maybe your definition of propaganda is…different, who knows.\u201d<\/p>\n
About The Kashmir Files and Kerala Files, she added, \u201cThe films apparently enjoy a bit of creative math: \u201832,000 women converted to Islam!\u2019 when real cases barely scrape a few hundred. But hey, that’s how propaganda works, right? Take a sliver of truth, sprinkle in some absurdly inflated numbers, and suddenly you’ve got a full blown narrative against a community.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continued while clarifying herself to a person mentioning their Kashmiri Pandit background, \u201cI never said the problems didn’t exist, but these films clearly push a certain narrative and deviation is apparently optional. I’d love to hear about the \u2018real\u2019 ground reality from someone in the know…if only you weren’t hiding behind a faceless, anonymous account.\u201d<\/p>\n
Addressing the same person, she asked, \u201cWhy haven’t you shared a single personal experience that actually matters? Curiosity, dear friend, call it logical verification.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also took a dig at Priyanka Chopra for her recent Oscar moment when she smiled and nodded while Javier Barden, with whom she presented the Best International Feature Film award, made a statement about the Israel-Iran conflict and condemned war. <\/p>\n
\u201cPriyanka Chopra and her international platform. She’s got a chance to oppose an illegal war next to someone taking a stand, and…she can’t even clap,\u201d Reet shared.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf my sister gets that kind of opportunity, and Inshallah, sache patshah, jai shri ram, I pray she rises to the occasion,\u201d she added, saying that if Aneet echoes the same, she will be \u201cthe first one to call it out\u201d.<\/p>\n
Further clarifying, she said, \u201cI do not discriminate against anyone, ever, because I’m human. I am fully unafraid to take a stand, even if everyone else is yelling \u2018no!\u2019 at me. What I do discriminate against are political figures who drag religion into politics, especially when the same politicians orchestrated the 2002 genocide against Muslims. That is terrorism, that is a crime, and I will call it out. Would anyone let a film about that pass without scrutiny? Doubtful.\u201d<\/p>\n
In conclusion, she said, \u201cSo, yes, I don’t discriminate against individuals. I do, however, discriminate against political dishonesty cloaked in religion. And yes, I’m unafraid to speak up, even if the majority doesn’t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The screenshots of the comments have drawn heavy trolling on social media. Netizens are even calling out Aneet online, requesting filmmaker Aditya Dhar to not cast the actress in his future films. Social media users are even calling her \u201canti-national\u201d and \u201canti-India\u201d.<\/p>\n
Aneet shot to fame with Mohit Suri\u2019s 2025 film Saiyaara, in which she starred alongside Ahaan Pandey. The film marked both of their Bollywood debuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saiyaara actress Aneet Padda has found herself in the middle of a controversy after her sister, Reet Padda,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12013,458,146,85,46,10000],"class_list":{"0":"post-362653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-aneet-padda","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-saiyaara"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362653","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=362653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}