Sayani Gupta Takes Dig at Shah Rukh Khan’s Gandhi Jayanti Post, Asks Him to ‘Speak Up for Truth’

Quoting his tweet, Sayani urged him to “speak up for the truth” and not “just shut your ears and eyes and mouths.” She wrote, “Say something. The Right thing. Gandhi also taught us to speak up for the Truth, the downtrodden, the exploited, for our Dalit brothers and sisters.”

Sayani’s comments come in the wake of the death of two Dalit women after they were allegedly gang-raped in Hathras and Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh. It has caused nationwide fury, with hundreds and thousands of protestors taking to the streets to demonstrate against the “growing incidence” of caste-based crimes in the country.

Sayani worked with Shah Rukh in the 2016 movie Fan, which sees SRK in a double role as filmstar Aryan Khanna and obsessive fan Gaurav Chandna, who look just like each other.