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EXCLUSIVE: Pankit Thakker Calls Out Priyanka Chopra Again For ‘Self-Representation’ As Brown Globally
Pankit Thakker Slams Priyanka Chopra: Since making his television debut in 2001 with Kabhii Sautan Kabhii Sahelii, alongside Anita Hassanandani and Urvashi Dholakia, Pankit Thakker has come a long way in his career.
He is best known for his role in Karan Singh Grover's Dill Mill Gayye and can currently be seen in Dangal TV's Janam Janam Ka Saath. Although the actor is enjoying professional success, he recently made headlines for his honest take on international star Priyanka Chopra Jonas' take on pay parity in Bollywood.
The TV star expressed his disappointment and stated that he doesn't agree with Priyanka's opinion and she should be thankful for all the opportunities she got in her career so far. As expected, his statement irked the actress' fans who trolled him on social media.
However, Pankit Thakker surely knows how to not get affected by trolling and has now called out the Fashion star again. Yes, you read that right!
In an exclusive conversation with Filmibeat once again, Pankit opened up about the reactions he got after speaking his heart out and slammed Priyanka again for self-representation of 'brown' on the international platform.
Talking about upsetting the actress' fans, he said, "There are a lot of ardent and emotional Priyanka fans who've got upset with my observations. However, there's an entire group of intellectual fans who have understood where I am coming from. Again I would like to mention that this whole pay parity comparison that Priyanka has started is baseless. By her comments what is coming across is that she has been given pay parity by Americans and that Indians never understood her worth which is such a wrong way to represent your country on a global platform. She means that the Indians are chauvinists and that Americans are more evolved than us Indians. However, I would like to reinforce that pay parity is not gender-based; it is what you bring to the table as a talent."
This
time,
Pankit
also
talked
about
how
he's
irked
with
Priyanka
referring
to
herself
as
'brown'.
Sharing
his
opinion,
he
told
us,
"As
an
Indian
and
also
as
a
member
of
the
same
fraternity,
I
am
hurt
by
being
represented
as
a
brown
person
in
America,
since
this
does
not
accurately
represent
my
heritage
and
identity.
She
is
not
a
native
American;
she
is
an
Indian.
Isn't
using
someone's
skin
color
as
a
way
to
define
or
judge
them
considered
a
form
of
racism?
How
can
she
be
so
disrespectful
or
dismissive,
reducing
a
person
to
their
skin
color
rather
than
represent
her
own
country."
The actor added, "Her own costars like Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan to name a few have always represented India on a global platform promoting its growth and development on a global scale; not the skin color; as it promotes nationalism and pride in one's heritage and culture. She cleverly portrays herself as a victim in all her interviews dismissing all the opportunities she got in the Hindi film industry and in India. It's a shame that she always gets away with such remarks. Can she not make it about the race and embarrass the rest of us Indians? We don't like to put our country in the minority."
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