Raveena Tandon Reacts To Zaira Wasim's Exit From Bollywood, Asks Her To Not Demean It For Others
Raveena Tandon Reacts To Zaira Wasim's Post
Updated : July 01, 2019 12:30 PM IST
It is safe to assume that no one was expecting Zaira Wasim’s sudden decision to quit Bollywood. Despite her small age Zaira managed to wow everyone and even won a National Award for her performance in Dangal and then Secret Superstar cemented her position as one of the outstanding young talent in the industry. Thus, when she took to social media to announce her exit from Bollywood citing spiritual reasons, it came as a shock to everyone.
The reactions to Zaira’s post have been mixed as some as hailed her choice and some have slammed her for the same. One of the latter in Raveena Tandon who took to Twitter to voice her reaction on the matter and asked her to ‘exit gracefully without demeaning it for others.” She tweeted:
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >Doesn’t matter if two film olds are ungrateful to the industry that have given them all. Just wish they’d exit gracefully and keep their regressive views to themselves .
— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena) June 30, 2019
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >I standby and love my industry,all the opportunities it gives to everyone. Exit is your choice,reason,by all means.Just do not demean it for everyone else.The industry where all work shoulder to shoulder,no differences,caste,religion or where you come from. #Respect #indianfilms https://t.co/hRJKTfI9J8
— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena) June 30, 2019
After Raveena’s tweet, she has also been trolled for calling Zaira ‘ ungrateful two-film old’ .
For the uninitiated, Zaira Wasim of Dangal fame announced her exit from Bollywood saying ‘I am not truly happy with this identity i.e my line of work.’ She further went on to explain how the working of the industry as an ‘environment that damaged my peace, imaan and my relationship with Allah.’ Here is her full post:
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Zaira will next be seen in Shonali Bose’s The Sky Is Pink starring Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar along with her where she will be playing the role of Aisha Chaudhary, a motivational speaker who was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis and succumbed to it at the age of 19. The film will obviously be her last film before she quite Bollywood for good.