A clip of actress Sai Pallavi, who is known for her roles in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu films, has gone viral on social media in which she has compared the Kashmiri Hindu genocide that happened in the early 1990s with stray incidents of clashes involving cattle smugglers.
In an interview to a Telugu channel, actress Sai Pallavi said “Some days ago, ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie was released. So, when The Kashmir Files was released, they showed how Kashmiri Pandits were killed during that time. How Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir were killed were shown. Now, let’s take, in covid time, someone was taking a cow in a vehicle. The driver of the vehicle was a Muslim. Some people beat him up and shouted Jai Sri Ram. Where is the difference between the two incidents?”
Dear @Sai_Pallavi92
There is a huge difference in a random Muslim being beaten & an entire community being uprooted.
Please don't trivialise my pain.
Come & see any of our broken homes & hearts. We are witnesses to Genocide but await justice.
Not Everything is Propaganda. pic.twitter.com/YhN9r2QTKM
— Kashmiri Hindu (@BattaKashmiri) June 14, 2022
In an attempt to come across as politically neutral she said ““If I was from a Leftist family or from a Rightist family, then maybe I would have favoured a side. But I was raised in a neutral family where they taught you to have to be a good human being first. The oppressed should be protected irrespective of left-wing and right-wing. I grew up in a neutral environment. I heard about this left-wing and right-wing, but we can’t say who is right and who is wrong.”
She also said that while we think of Pakistani army as terrorists, Pakistani people would think the same of Indian security forces.
“They (Naxals) thought at that time that they could only get justice by violence. It happened in the past, long back. Our perspectives may be different. Pakistani people think Indian security forces are terrorists, we think the same for their forces. It is very difficult to say whether it (the Naxal movement) is right or wrong. It depends on the situation at that time. They thought violence was the only way, as per their situation.”, she said.
Many on social media have lashed out at Sai Pallavi for trivializing the plight of Kashmiri Hindus with that of stray incidents of violence involving cattle smugglers.
I don't carry hatred for @Sai_Pallavi92 , many in India have not been aware of what happened to us , as a community … Her equating us with cow smugglers is probably unintentional , i invite her to our refugee camps for better understanding
May God keep her blessed https://t.co/zl5hqkywv7
— Pawan Durani (@PawanDurani) June 14, 2022
Dear @Sai_Pallavi92 ,
Without knowing what has happened, please stop lecturing or trying to relate the incidents to Kashmiri exodus. There is huge difference. Stop being hypocrite. https://t.co/8Xyrt4tZn7— Praveen Reddy (@ImPraveenReddy) June 15, 2022
I liked #SaiPallavi.
Not any more.I never complained about her pimple filled cheeks, ugly shaped ass, bad hair styles.
But going forward I will hate her. As she tells killing a cow smuggler and killing Kashmiri Pundits are same.
She might say killing Terrorist and KP is same.
— Norbert Elekes (@N0rbertElekes) June 14, 2022
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