Priyanka Chopra defends Shahrukh Khan, says celebrities are soft targets
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oi-Tarneet
By Puri
Mumbai:
Even
as
controversy
raged
over
Pakistan
Interior
Minister
Rehman
Malik
asking
India
to
provide
security
to
superstar
Shahrukh
Khan
in
the
wake
of
his
reported
remarks,
actress
Priyanka
Chopra
feels
that
celebrities
are
becoming
a
"soft
target".
"I
believe
people
often
use
celebrities
to
advance
their
propagandas...
Celebrities
have
become
a
soft
target
nowadays," Priyanka
told
reporters
at
an
event
where
she
unveiled
the
video
of
her
single
"In
My
City".
The
actress
was
reacting
to
the
controversy
involving
Shahrukh
Khan
over
his
remarks,
which
he
reportedly
made
in
an
interview,
that
"he
has
sometimes
become
the
inadvertent
object
of
political
leaders
who
choose
to
make
him
a
symbol
of
all
that
they
think
is
wrong
and
unpatriotic
about
Muslims
in
India".
Shahrukh's
remarks
prompted
Malik
to
ask
Indian
government
to
provide
security
to
the
actor.
"Media
should
not
get
trapped
in
such
situations
and
aim
at
telling
the
truth," she
said.
To
a
query
whether
she
would
have
encountered
more
controversies
had
her
title
being
'Khan',
the
visibly
miffed
actress
retorted,
saying,
"I
think
I
get
into
controversies
with
'Chopra'
surname
too.
A
big
deal
is
being
made
out
of
nothing.
You
should
be
ashamed
to
even
ask
such
a
question
in
a
country
as
secular
as
India."