Taapsee Pannu on Neha Dhupia Roadies controversy

Actor Neha Dhupia was in the news all of last week after the social media storm raging against her when she commented on cheating in a relationship on her reality show, Roadies Revolution. Neha posted a long note on Twitter which said that her family and friends are being harassed and abused due to it.

For the uninformed, Neha had reportedly scolded a contestant for saying that he hit his girlfriend after he found out that she was cheating on him. The host and actress had said that it’s a woman’s choice if she wants to be in a relationship with five boys at a time but hitting her is not the right thing to do.

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Since then, Twitter and Instagram have been flooded with memes and abuses targeted towards Neha, calling her a hypocrite. Answering to the trolls, Neha wrote,

“Roadies is a show that I have been a part of for five years and enjoyed every bit of it. It takes me all over India and gives me the opportunity to team up with absolute rock stars from all parts of the country. What I do not like or accept is what is happening for more than two weeks now! Recently during one of the episodes that aired, I took a stand against violence.

A guy talked about his partner who cheated on him (allegedly) and in retaliation, he hit her by his own admission. What the girl did is a choice she made which is a moral choice regardless of someone, man or woman… adultery is a moral choice. Cheating is not something I stand for, and it is unfortunate that I have been misrepresented for the same… but what I do stand for is women’s safety.

Sadly, as a reaction to my opinion, I have been subjected to weeks of vitriol. One of my posts had over 56k comments! Yet I was silent but now people close to me who have nothing to do with this – my family, my friends, my co-workers and even my dad’s personal WhatsApp are being flooded with abuses and harassment. My daughter’s page is nothing less than a barrage of abuses and this is not acceptable to me.

What a man or a woman does in a relationship is their choice and moral choices are always ambiguous. But no matter what they are, they cannot lead to physical abuse. I stand by the fact that NO MATTER WHAT … physical abuse or assault is not acceptable. Obviously, a man’s physical strength is a lot more than girls and gender-based violence against women is a huge problem in our country and across the world… I urge people, whether a man or woman, to educate themselves about domestic violence… If you’re a victim of abuse, please stand up for yourself. You are not alone.

Neha Dhupia”

Taapsee Pannu came in support of Neha and also slammed the abusive critics who had been harassing actor Dhupia and her family with their comments and messages.

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Taapsee Pannu/Instagram

Below is what Taapsee wrote on Twitter in support of Neha:

“For all the ppl writing abusive and harassing messages to you and your family should know, they aren’t on the right side of the moral compass they r acting to be the torch bearers of. Adultery is wrong morally n so is violence. One can’t be the response to the other.”

Checkout Taapsee tweet below:

Many other celebrities including Richa Chadha, Sophie Choudry, Ekta Kapoor etc came in support of Neha.

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