Mumbai: Priyanka Chopra has been implicated on social media to say Sikkim as a “rebel-affected state”
The actor who recently presented a Sikkim-language film ‘Pahuna’ the Toronto International Film Festival claimed in an interview with ET Canada that it was the first movie to emerge from Sikkim because it was a “very troubled” region.
“This is Sikkim’s film, Sikkim is a small state in the northeast of India, in which no film was ever made from the film industry or film, and it is the first film to come out of the area because it is very upset that the revolt And the situation of troubles. I am very excited, “the actor said in the interview.
Immediately after her interview, many Twitter users started turning off the actor to be “politically uneducated”.
Biswatosh Sinha, a screenwriter from Assam, posted, “Dear Priyanka Chopra, Sikkim is a peaceful place and #Pahuna is not the first film from the region. Please get the facts right about Northeast.”
One user wrote: your statement on Sikkim justifies that beauty pageants are all about bikini round and nothing more than an entry to films
