Priyanka Chopra was in Mumbai only for a day to attend the event of her upcoming film Bajirao Mastani, and of course, she couldn’t avoid the questions regarding the apparent growing intolerance in the country.
When asked about the issue of intolerance, she said, “I don’t think intolerance is about me as an actor or you as a journalist, but I think as a world. Look at what is happening all around. Look at the wars happening around.
“I am going to name Paris, Syria, Lebanon and even Mumbai. Just for one second sit down and look around the world we are living in... everything is intolerant. Are we not the world? Are we not saying that this person is wrong because his religion is wrong, or this person is wrong because he is going to a concert? What is happening? It’s not a country or a particular type of people. We as a people as human beings just have to sit down and think for one second, why we have become like that.”
The actress added, “So don’t go out on social media and use your anonymity and blast out at people because you can. Sit down in your homes and think about your opinion. Our forefathers fought for democracy in the country, they fought years and years of British Raj so that we could have a democracy, we could have freedom of speech, language and opinion and so did so many other countries.”
Adding on from her recent experience in the United States, Priyanka said, “Even in America right now in an interview somebody said that, women of colour are coming in.
“I don’t want to be called a woman of colour, I am a woman. If you want to, say man and woman — brown, black, blue, yellow... what is wrong with us?
“I am not even going to comment on one particular thing right now because, to me, I am travelling the world right now and I am seeing it everywhere and not just in India.”
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