SHOCKING! Neetu Chandra unhappy with Alia Bhatt for the portrayal of Bihari...

SHOCKING! Neetu Chandra unhappy with Alia Bhatt for the portrayal of Bihari girl in Udta Punjab- read open letter

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Celebrity Neetu Chandra has penned an open letter to director Abhishek Chaubey and performer Alia Bhatt for the way people of Bihar have been impersonated in their upcoming film “Udta Punjab”.

Neetu wrote:

In the letter, Neetu wrote: “It’s disturbing to see the way Biharis have been portrayed in Hindi cinema over the last few years, the recent example being Alia Bhatt’s character from ‘Udta Punjab’ and from whatever one understands from the promo of the film, director Abhishek Chaubey is guilty of strengthening the stereotype of Biharis by creating Bhatt’s character the way it is, in ‘Udta Punjab’.”

Alia plays with a Bihari migrant in “Udta Punjab“, which handles the drug menace in Punjab. Neetu also stresses on the fact that regrettably, “almost all the films made by Prakash Jha, who also hails have always stereotyped Biharis showing them gangsters, policemen and corrupt politicians, from Bihar and in his movies.

“Bihar was always exaggerated to be the most dangerous place to visit as his films showed only either kidnapping and robbery and murders not realising that he himself along with leading Bollywood actors (part of his films) are maligning the name of Bihar whose history has been the most richest in the world.”

“The first educational university was set up in Rajgir, near Nalanda (Bihar) and several respected religions including Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism roots have developed in Bihar.

“Visionaries and scholars like Rajendra Prasad (first President of Republic of India), Ustad Bismillah Khan (Shehnai maestro)… among several hundreds of stalwarts of the world belong to Bihar. So why none of the makers from Bihar and outside Bihar have ever made stories and films on these stories? Because they think that they will keep making fun of Bihars in their films and TV programmes and no one will say anything against them,” Neetu added. She has urged people to stop “stereotyping Bihar because you have seen Bihar through your ears not through your eyes”.