Film
personalities
Mini
Mathur,
Shweta
Tiwari
and
Sona
Mohapatra
have
lambasted
social
media
trolls
for
criticising
actor-TV
presenter
Mandira
Bedi
over
her
attire
and
decision
to
perform
last
rites
of
her
late
husband
Raj
Kaushal.
Bedi's
husband,
filmmaker
Raj
Kaushal,
known
for
directing
movies
like
Pyaar
Mein
Kabhi
Kabhi
and
Shaadi
Ka
Laddoo
passed
away
on
Wednesday
following
a
heart
attack.
His
last
rites
were
held
at
Shivaji
Park
crematorium,
Dadar
where
close
friends
from
the
industry
including
actors
Ronit
Roy,
Sameer
Soni,
Ashish
Chowdhry,
and
Pyaar
Mein
Kabhi
Kabhi
actor
Dino
Morea
were
present.
However,
soon
after
Bedi
found
herself
at
the
receiving
end
of
social
media
trolls,
who
objected
to
the
clothes
that
she
wore
at
the
funeral.
The
actor,
who
broke
down
multiple
times
during
the
funeral,
was
seen
wearing
jeans
with
a
white
casual
top.
Some
social
media
users
also
took
umbrage
over
the
actor's
decision
to
perform
the
last
rites
of
her
husband,
something
which
is
traditionally
done
by
men.
In
a
Twitter
post
on
Saturday,
actor-host-model
Mini
Mathur
expressed
her
anger
towards
people
who
trolled
Bedi
and
said
she
should
rather
be
applauded
for
her
strength.
"Makes
me
sick
that
people
are
having
a
field
day
trolling
a
grieving
woman
for
performing
last
rites
on
her
husband
instead
of
asking
a
stranger
or
her
tiny
kid.
Or
for
not
having
the
time
to
dress
the
way
THEY
imagine
grieving
women
should
dress.
Fools!!
Applaud
her
strength!," she
wrote.
Tiwari
shared
a
screenshot
of
a
post
by
a
digital
creator
that
questioned
the
mentality
of
men
having
the
right
to
perform
rituals
and
the
choice
of
attire
during
the
funeral.
“@MandiraBedi
we
are
with
you
and
proud
of
you
for
expressing
your
love
freely!,"
Tiwari
wrote
on
her
Instagram
Stories.
Sona
Mohapatra
said
she
was
not
surprised
by
the
criticism
of
Bedi
as
she
believes
"stupidity"
is
in
abundance
in
society.
"That
some
people
are
still
commenting
on
Mandira
Bedi’s
dress
code
or
choice
to
carry
out
her
husband
Raj
Kushal’s
last
rites
shouldn’t
surprise
us.
Stupidity
is
more
abundant
than
any
other
element
in
our
world
after
all,"
she
tweeted.
Actor-dancer
Mukti
Mohan
also
came
out
in
support
of
Bedi
and
lamented
how
compassion
and
humanity
is
missing
from
society,
especially
amid
such
testing
times.
"Women
are
half
of
humanity,
half
of
humanity
has
remained
undignified,
uneducated,
deprived
of
freedom,
we've
hampered
and
handicapped
ourselves.
We
are
a
reflection
of
what
is
happening
around
us!
"And
we
have
destroyed
half
of
ourselves
and
if
we
are
in
misery
then
who
is
to
be
blamed?
Ask
yourselves
next
time
when
you
face
such
situations
daughters,
sisters,
wives,
mothers
and
sons
of
such
mothers,
brothers
of
such
sisters,
when
YOU
are
questioned
when
you
want
to
grieve
/express/love
freely!!
Thank
you
for
being
you
@mandirabedi,"
Mohan
said.
There
were
some
users
who
also
supported
Bedi
in
the
aftermath
of
the
backlash
the
actor
received
from
social
media
trolls.
"I
don't
think
Mandira
Bedi
actively
tried
to
break
a
stereotype.I
think
she
did
what
a
person
in
love
&
in
grief
might
do
-
not
caring
about
strangers' opinions.
She
carried
her
dead
husband's
bier
coz
he
was
her
life
companion,
wearing
jeans
coz
grief
doesn't
care
bout
a
dress
code,"
a
user
said.
Another
Twitter
user
wrote,
"Women
are
not
spared
trolling
even
in
times
of
grief.
When
does
the
policing
end?
All
I
see
in
the
picture
is
a
brave
woman
who
just
lost
her
life
partner.
#MandiraBedi"
One
user
labelled
Bedi's
critics
as
"sick".
"People
outraging
about
what
Mandira
Bedi
wore
to
her
husband's
last
rites,
you
are
sick.
You
are
trying
to
bring
down
a
super
courageous
woman,
who
battled
tremendous
grief
with
such
grace.
You
are
rotten
souls,"
the
person
tweeted.
Bedi
and
Kaushal,
who
got
married
in
1999,
have
two
children
--
son
Vir
and
daughter
Tara.