NEW DELHI – At the Shalom Bollywood party, lots of famous faces were seen.Some of which are seen below in the too-bright-for-Ayesha-Khan selfie takenby Mr. Amitabh Bachchan with prime minister of Israel, Mr. Netanyahu andhis wife.
“My best selfie yet,” the Israel PM said about the selfie that also hadRandhir Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Sara Ali Khan, filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, MadhurBhandarkar, Nikkhil Advani, Abhishek Kapoor and Subhash Ghai.
The event, Shalom Bollywood, was designed to reach out to Bollywood toshoot more films in Israel.
“I want all the Bollywood celebrities, producers and stars to join togetherfor a selfie. Let a few hundred million people see the friendship,” MrNetanyahu said. The stars quickly agreed. Amitabh Bachchan, the tallest ofthem, held the selfie stick and a few minutes later, the Israeli PMuploaded the picture.
Will my Bollywood selfie beat@TheEllenShowlink> Hollywood selfie atthe Oscars? @SrBachchan link> @juniorbachchan link>@rajcheerfull link>@imbhandarkar link>@vivek_oberoi link> @pic.twitter.com/v1r0GIhKLy link>
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 18, 2018link>
But with all that goes well, something has to fall apart:
Bollywood promotes casteism. Muslim actors/actresses refuse to meet IsraeliPM Netanyahu pic.twitter.com/uAKvVOciws link>
— Limes Of India (@LimesOfIndia) January 19, 2018link>
(We really think it’s rude to ignore Sara Ali Khan and the very talented‘Muslim’ producer Imtiaz Ali on the top right corner of Mr Bachchan’sOscar-style selfie.)There was a lot of controversy regarding why the Khansof Bollywood refused to meet with the Israeli prime minister. Tweets likethese started emerging:
Khans humiliates Bollywood in front of the entire world, refuse to meetIsraeli PM Netanyahu just because he is a Jew pic.twitter.com/HrJPqGXpEZlink>
— Limes Of India (@LimesOfIndia) January 19, 2018link>
And then this happened. This Pakistani bhai probably got a virtual goldmedal for this comeback:
Yeah.. Not one single country kills its minorities for eating Beef. Not one.
— Sohail A (@SohailAnwer) January 19, 2018link>
The real reason why the famous Khans refused to meet with Netanyahu was notjust because he is a Jew but because he is creating humanitarian disasterin occupied Palestine.
All the controversy was limited to the Khans, and hardly anyone noticedthat Rahul Gandhi (who India has begun to dislike since Narendra Modistepped up as prime minister of India) also refused to meet Netanyahu dueto his own personal views on the India-Israel recent blossoming friendship.