Actor
and
producer
Nikhil
Dwivedi
slammed
Bollywood
celebrities
who
are
posting
pictures
of
their
Maldives
vacation
amid
the
COVID-19
pandemic.
He
agreed
with
a
tweet
by
journalist
Barkha
Dutt
and
said
that
celebrities
are
oblivious
to
the
crisis
across
the
country
and
that
they
are
not
heartless,
but
just
stupid
to
be
sharing
pictures
of
themselves
holidaying.
"Absolutely.
Then
we
r
surprised
at
the
suddenness
of
the
backlash
the
movie
industry
receives
for
unrelated
reasons.
We
r
so
self-absorbed
&
so
oblivious
to
what's
around
us
tht
we
appear
unempathetic.
Let
me
also
assure
it's
not
like
they
r
heartless,
none
are..
just
plain
stupid,"
Nikhil
wrote
in
a
tweet,
responding
to
Barkha
Dutt's
tweet.
Barkha
had
written,
"With
apology
to
#Maldives
but
I
just
cant
bear
to
see
one
more
sun-kissed,
rippled
water
image
from
there
while
our
COVID
numbers
surge
&
jobs
plummet.
Its
sort
of
the
November
version
of
Banana
Bread
&
Celebrities
would
be
be
well
advised
on
the
tone-deafness
of
it."
In
the
past
few
weeks,
many
celebrities
have
taken
to
their
social
media
handles
to
share
glimpses
of
their
Maldives
vacation.
These
include
Tiger
Shroff,
Disha
Patani,
Mouni
Roy,
Neha
Dhupia,
Angad
Bedi,
Sonakshi
Sinha,
Rakul
Preet
Singh,
Aadar
Jain,
Tara
Sutaria,
Taapsee
Pannu,
Samantha
and
Kajal
Aggarwal.
Meanwhile,
Nikhil
tested
positive
for
the
novel
Coronavirus
last
week.
In
an
interview
with
ETimes,
he
told
that
he
underwent
the
test
as
a
precautionary
measure.
He
said
that
he
was
asymptomatic
and
that
he
is
under
home
quarantine,
resting.
Talking
about
work,
Nikhil
recently
announced
his
next
production,
which
is
going
to
be
a
Nagin
trilogy
starring
Shraddha
Kapoor.