New Delhi: Hashtag #KarwaChauth started trending on twitter following veteran Bollywood actress Ratna Pathak Shah’s said that society is becoming extremely conservative.
She said India ‘is becoming extremely conservative’, ‘superstitious’ and might become ‘like Saudi Arabia’.
In a recent interview to a digital portal, she said that nothing has changed for women, or very little has changed in very crucial areas.
She said that our society is becoming extremely conservative.
“We’re becoming superstitious, we’re being forced into accepting and making religion a very important part of one’s life. Someone asked me for the first time last year if I’m keeping ‘karwa chauth ka vrat (observing karwa chauth)’. I said, ‘Am I mad?'”
“Isn’t it appalling that modern, educated women do #KarwaChauth…हम लोग सऊदी अरेबिया बनना चाहते हैं क्या?”
– says Actor Naseeruddin Shah’s wife Ratna Pathak Shah in an Interview. Netizens question her silence on women issues like Teen Talaq & Burqa.
? Credit- Pinkvilla pic.twitter.com/QtXQhNwup5
— Jammu-Kashmir Now (@JammuKashmirNow) July 28, 2022
Following her statement, people started trolling her for questioning the importance of Karwa Chauth. Users also expressed their anger.
Here is how Twitterati reacted:
Ratna Pathak Shah finds Karwa chauth extremely conservative & compares India with Saudi Arabia
But the hypocrite was completely silent on * Hij@@b issue”
What else can we expect from a typical elite Bollywood Secularist
— Sheetal Chopra ?? (@SheetalPronamo) July 27, 2022
#KarvaChauth
Naseeruddin shah’s wife, Ratna Pathak : Modern women doing Karva Chauth is appalling. India turning into SaudiBut
School going girls demanding to wear Hijab
M men marrying dozens of women
Sar Tan Se Juda zombies ki/lling in the name of religion is “Progressive” ? pic.twitter.com/Hj1aZtdize— Shruti (@kadak_chai_) July 28, 2022
Will Ratna Pathak Shah also enlighten us with her views on many Muslim males who insist on their women, even infants, wearing a hijab/ burqa in India and assault them if they don’t? Is that not Saudi Arabian for her? Or is that her idea of just being liberal?
— Mohan Sinha ?? (@Mohansinha) July 28, 2022
Why did Ratna pathak add ‘SHAH’ in her name after marriage, while mulla Nasiruddin didn’t add ‘PATHAK’ in his name?
Why did none of the sons -Imaad & Vivaan Shah of mulla Nasiruddin & brahmin Ratna pathak shah, don’t carry ‘Pathak’ but ‘Shah’ as their surname?
Too patriarchal!
— vivek (@Vksinh_) July 27, 2022
Indian Women observing Karva Chauth fast is making us more conservative than Saudi Arabia while Sar Tan Se Juda is making us progressive.
~ Ratna pathak Shah wife of Naseeruddin Shah— Aaj Ki Taza Khabar (youtube channel) (@AKTKadmin) July 28, 2022
Ratna Pathak Shah thinks ‘India Turning Into Saudi’ as Women still follow Karva Chauth.
Woke Libbies while giving Gyaan to Modern Women on
Karva Chauth Hijab, Burqa pic.twitter.com/B2nkPSuuFA
— g0v!ñD $#@®mA (@rishu_1809) July 28, 2022
Today I came across with One more woke woman “Ratna Pathak Shah” wife of Nasiruddin shah
She says why modern educated women are keeping karuwa chauth fast !! Lemme tell u keeping fast is indian rituals not mandatory it also improves health of woman!! Man too keep fast!!— Ankit Gupta (@AnkitGu01754772) July 27, 2022
Modern women falling prey to #LoveJihad is appalling , poor Ratna Pathak Shah. https://t.co/7xvV6SCwoJ
— Sanghi_doctorni (@crocusativus12) July 28, 2022