Fidaa and Shyam Singha Roy fame Sai Pallavi is busy promoting her upcoming movie Virata Parvam, which is due in cinemas on June 17. She is essaying the role of a woman, who falls in love with a Naxal leader, played by Rana Daggubati. The upcoming film is said to be inspired by real-life incidents.
During a media interview, Sai Pallavi was asked whether she was influenced by the left-wing movement in her personal life. The actress clarified that she doesn’t take sides. Sai Pallavi’ comments during an interview, on violence in the name of religion, have sparked a row on the internet with several Hindutva supporters accusing the actress of trivialising the Kashmiri Pandit exodus.
In the interview, Sai Pallavi said, “The killing of Kashmiri Pandits was wrong. Some days ago, The movie The Kashmir Files was released. In that, they showed how Kashmiri Pandits living there at that time were killed. More recently, during COVID time, if you are taking it like the religious conflict, recently, a Muslim man was driving a vehicle and transporting the cows. Some people stopped him and beaten him and not only this he was also forced to chant slogans of Jai Shri Ram. So what happened then, and what happened now, we can not see any difference.” This question emerged when the interviewer asked Sai Pallavi if she felt sympathy for the Naxals while performing this role.