TW: Mention of sexual assault, molestation, rape, trauma, and Vivek Agnihotri. Bollywood filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri recently took part in a march along with BJP leaders and cadets in Kolkata, seeking justice for the rape-murder victim and to make the city great again. The maker of the 2023 flop ‘The Vaccine War’ rallied with protesters on the streets of the city of joy with a gleeful smile, enjoying a little too much.
Yes! Public personalities will be scrutinized harder for every public appearance, and more so for their shenanigans at a somber event such as the RG Kar case. For the unversed on the midnight of August 9, 2024, a 31-year-old trainee postgrad doctor was raped and murdered after she went to sleep at the seminar hall of the state-run RG Kar medical college and hospital. After a 36-hour marathon shift, the victim had retired to the empty room for lack of a proper place of rest for the medicos.
The case has been transferred to the CBI now, with the Supreme Court taking suo motu cognizance and slamming the state government for their slack handling of the case. The state’s woman CM, Mamta Banerjee, who was criticized for her handling of the case also went on a march drawing flak. Dainik Bhaskar.
#RGKarProtest pic.twitter.com/XwkvWVTCn4 — Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) August 23, 2024 Thank you all the young people of Kolkata who joined me yesterday.
#RGKarProtest pic.twitter.com/MBKJyxQdHb — Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) August 22, 2024 Observe the happy smiling faces of Vivek Agnihotri, Swapan Dasgupta, actor/bjp leader Anjana Basu and other female BJP members during this Justice for RG KAR protest March.
For them, even a heinous crime like this was a photo Op moment!!! pic.twitter.com/myyWFY4Hv0 — Sourav || সৌরভ (@Sourav_3294) August 23, 2024 Meanwhile, the filmmaker’s (now deleted) tweet from 2013 has gone viral with an image of Tata Nano captioned “ There is simply no way to be Gang Raped in here .
” Vivek Agnihotri had captioned the tweet as “ What makes the NANO the SAFEST car for women?” 'Disgusting, Vile': #VivekAgnihotri 's Old Tweet On Getting Raped In Nano Resurfaces Amid #KolkataDoctor Case, Netizens SLAM Filmmaker https://t.co/Zk67gWnUTR — Free Press Journal (@fpjindia) August 18, 2024 See Also: Bengal Horror: Internet Is Outraged Over Kolkata Doctor Rape-Murder Dubbed As ‘Nirbhaya 2.0’; ‘Do Not Erase Her’ See Also: Search For Kolkata Rape-Murder Victim’s Video Surge In Google And Porn Sites; Internet Is Disgusted Reactions poured in on social media over Vivek Agnihotri’s demeanor at the Kolkata protest.
Actor and activist Swara Bhaskar reacted with a bunch of yuck emojis. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 https://t.co/84HP1AbxiW — Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) August 23, 2024 Few netizens slammed Agnihotri for the “ selective and motivated outrage.
” “ He is just a shameless man ,” jibed one. Another user quipped, “ Ye basharmo ki toli hai. ” “ Ambulance chaser looking for a moving scrip t,” slammed yet another user on X/Twitter.
He is a shameless man. He just went there to gain some political mileage. — Ravi Pandey (@pravi4071) August 23, 2024 Selective and motivated outrage is the way to go.
— Dr Aratrika Ganguly (@aratrika_g08) August 23, 2024 ye besharmo ki toli hai!! they are no less criminal than a rapist. selective approach has finished these countries. they are just doing this for a party not the nation or gender.
nothing heinous then them — Nilakantha Mohanty (@NilaMohanty) August 23, 2024 In the US we have a term for a set lawyers, ambulance chasers That’s how they get their cases He’s there looking for a movie script because the one on vaccines bombed at the Box Office — Dr Nilima Srivastava (@gypsy_nilima) August 23, 2024 Reminder: Vivek Agnihotri is a fascist scum of the highest order and his propaganda film is one of the worst films made in the history of Indian cinema. pic.twitter.
com/JTkAqAkMhj — Siddharth (@DearthOfSid) April 11, 2022 See Also : Amid Kolkata Rape-Murder Case John Abraham Warns; 'Behave, Otherwise I’ll Tear Them Apart' See Also : 78 Years Of Independence And Women In India: Kolkata Rape-Murder Case Is Just One Among Many See Also: ’Nothing Changed Since Nirbhaya’ Aliaa Bhatt, Ayushmann Khurrana Join The Outrage Over Kolkata Rape-Murder Horror.
