Shaktimaan actor Mukesh Khanna on Monday commented on Sonakshi Sinha’s upbringing, making a reference to a past interaction where she couldn’t answer a question related to the Ramayana. In an interview with Siddharth Kanan, Mukesh said, “People were angry that Sonakshi didn’t know this, but I would say it’s not her fault—it’s her father’s fault. Why didn’t they teach their children this? Why did they become so modern?”
Sonakshi took to her Instagram stories to react to the comments. She penned a long note defending her father and slammed Mukesh. “Dear Sir, Mukesh Khanna ji… I recently read a statement you made saying that it’s my father’s fault I did not correctly answer a question about the Ramayana on a show I attended many years back. Firstly let me remind you there were two women on the hot seat that day who did not know the answer to the same question, but you chose to keep taking my name, and only my name, for reasons which are quite obvious.”
The note further read, “Yes, I may have blanked out that day, a human tendency, and forgotten who the Sanjeevani Booti was brought for, but clearly, you have also forgotten some of the lessons of forgive and forget taught by lord Ram himself. If lord Ram can forgive Manthara, if he can forgive Kaikeyi, if he can even forgive Ravan after the great battle was done, surely you can let go of this extremely small thing in comparison. Not that I need your forgiveness. But yes, I definitely need you to forget and stop bringing up the same incident time and again to be back in the news at the expense of me and my family.”
“And lastly, the next time you decide to say anything about the values my father has instilled in me, please remember it’s because of those values that I have only said what I said, very respectfully, after you decided to make some distasteful statements about my upbringing. I wish you well, thanks and regards,” Sonakshi added.
Sonakshi married long-time partner Zaheer Iqbal earlier this year. On the work front, she was seen in the horror-comedy Kakuda and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s extravaganza Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar.