NEW DELHI – Twitter has lashed out over cricketer Virat Kohli’s recentviral video in which wife Anushka Sharma can be seen schooling a man forthrowing garbage on the road.
Many have stated the couple’s main motive was to just put the video out onsocial media, DNA has reported.
“But seriously though, more than Anushka Sharma’s concern for throwingplastics, shooting a video and posting on SM seemed like the main purpose.Aise samay mein video shoot karna kisko yaad ata hai bhai? Same like sachintendulkar – helmet pehenlo,” tweeted one user.
*Here’s what the others posted*
“Anushka Sharma’s video is pointless. You can’t enforce positive behaviorin someone by screaming at them.”
“Anushka Sharma scolded someone for throwing garbage and the recording isdoing the rounds. I wish the face of the person would not have been sharedas even though he made a mistake, he need not be made infamous through theclip.”
“Why are you recording your wife’s heroics and publishing it in socialmedia?.. is this the first time you saw someone threw a plastic cover froma car? If your intention was to advice him, first be friendly instead ofbeing bossy.. this kinda attention seeking is so cheap.”
In the 17-second-long clip, the actor can be seen scolding the man in achauffeur-driven dark sedan for littering the streets. The video, however,did not capture the man in the act.
“Why are you throwing garbage on the road, you cannot just throw plastic onthe streets just like that,” Sharma can be heard as saying in the videoshared by Kohli on Twitter She then asks the man to use a dustbin insteadof throwing garbage on the streets.
Kohli captioned the clip as: “Saw these people throwing garbage on the road& pulled them up rightfully. Travelling in a luxury car and brains gone fora toss. These people will keep our country clean? Yeah right! If you seesomething wrong happening like this, do the same & spread awareness.@AnushkaSharma.”
He further called out people for turning everything on social media into ameme. “Lot of people who don’t have the courage to do something like thisfind it funny. Everything for people nowadays is meme content. Shame,” hewrote in another tweet.
The person, who was admonished by Sharma, went on to criticise the actorfor “ranting and yelling” at him “like a crazy roadside person”. The manwho identified himself as Arhhan Singh shared a post on Facebook, sayingthough he is “apologetic” for his carelessness, the actor could use someetiquette in her speech.
“Horrible! So I happened to carelessly litter a square millimetre ofplastic while driving! A car passing by rolls their window down and therewe have our wonderful Anushka Sharma ranting and yelling like a crazyroadside person!
“While I’m apologetic for my carelessness, Mrs Anushka Sharma Kohli alittle etiquette and politeness in your dialogue wouldn’t have made you alesser star! There are all kinds of manners and hygiene… verbal etiquetteis one of them!” he wrote.
Singh added the garbage mistakenly went out of the window of his luxurycar. “(It) was way less then the garbage that came out from your mouth…From your luxury car’s window… Or the trashy mind Virat Kohli to shootand post this online… For whatever gains…” he said.
Sharma is yet to publicly respond to the incident.