Shabana Azmi asks trolls to just chill after Javed Akhtars dig at Shashi Tharoors Hindi
Reacting to Shashi video Shabana tweeted Shashi Thats lovely. In a follow-up post she wrote And all those trolls just chill. Shashi Tharoor is a good friend and Javeds remark was in pure jest While sharing the video of himself singing a Hindi classic, Shashi said that it was ‘unrehearsed and amateur’. “After the cultural programme by Doordarshan Srinagar for the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, I was persuaded to sing for the Members.This is not the first time Shabana has come to Javed’s defence. Last year after a Twitter user suggested that he was not the recipient of the Richard Dawkins Award 2020 but only one of the nominees, she called it a preposterous claim.Reacting to a WhatsApp screenshot shared on Twitter, which claimed that Javed mistook his nomination for an actual victory and announced the news Shabana wrote This is patently untrue! We have an email from Richard Dawkins on 5th June offering the award and also from Robyn Blumner who heads the Centre for Inquiry USA. Shabana was most recently seen in the Disney+ Hotstar historical fiction series The Empire which traces the rise of the Mughal empire. Shabana will be seen next in a short film titled Sheer Qorma, in which she stars alongside Divya Dutta and Swara Bhasker.
