After the viral wrath faced by Alia Bhatt’s Sadak 2 trailer, another Bollywood video is facing the brunt of audience disapproval.
This time around – it is a music video featuring “star-kids” – Ananya Pandey and Ishaan Khattar.
While their new film – ‘Khaali Peeli’, was already under the radar of internet’s ongoing dismissal of anything that reeks of nepotism in showbiz, a new promotional dance number is now also being called out for being ‘racist’ to international singing sensation, Beyonce.
Entitled, ‘Beyonce Sharma Jayegi’ – the lyrics to the song describe Ananya as a fair skinned girl, stating that Beyonce will feel shy after looking at her.
Yep! I mean, what were they even thinking?
This, along with the lack of talent of the featured duo, hasn’t gone down well with the viewers – who have now given the YouTube upload of the music video over 200,000 dislikes as opposed to it’s 39,000 likes, at the time of writing this.
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Waiting for Beyonce to file a case…. https://t.co/VrQrf1xqd0
— MINI⁷❖⟭⟬ बांग पीडी की बहू ⟬⟭ (@pragmatic_prick) September 7, 2020
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#BeyonceSharmaJaayegi
Bollywood hitting new levels of low after hitting rock bottom.
Using obnoxious lyrics, skin color and comparing her with #Beyonce . Utter disappointment again. pic.twitter.com/FQW7HVd2pD— Chaos. (@nayeemiqbal_) September 7, 2020
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Beyonce sue them for defamationpic.twitter.com/21gbj4lMaK
— Adi (@_SGomezuniverse) September 7, 2020
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The way racism is so normalised in bollywood and in Indian Gp
ISTG I showed my mom the video and she was like what’s wrong with it
“Oh tujhe dekh ke GoOriYa Beyonce bhi Sharma jaayegi”
I’m..
Mujhe duniya tyaag deni hai— Chai’s cup⁷☕ (@RoseSJ1997) September 7, 2020
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beyoncé you dont deserve this slander kween
pic.twitter.com/GCzbTBYA2W— ً (@flrtytete) September 7, 2020
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Dear Beyonce,
We are sorry for this. pic.twitter.com/MGZQDoaaiC— Bunny (@Bunny_I_) September 7, 2020
Users have taken to Twitter, stating that the makers should feel ashamed of using racial innuendos and that Beyonce should file a defamation case against them.
It’s 2020, people. We couldn’t come up with anything better than this?