Sonakshi Sinha has strongly responded to Mukesh Khanna‘s remarks about her upbringing, following his viral comments regarding an old
Kaun Banega Crorepati
episode where she failed to answer a question about
Lord Hanuman
. Khanna criticized her father,
Shatrughan Sinha
, for not instilling cultural knowledge in his children.
Taking to Instagram stories, Sonakshi wrote, “I recently read a statement you made saying that it’s my father’s fault I did not answer a question about the Ramayana correctly on a show I attended many, many years back. Firstly let me remind you there were two women on the hot seat that day who did not know the answer to the same question, but you choose to keep taking my name, and only my name, for reasons which are quite obvious.”
Acknowledging her mistake on the show, Sonakshi added, “Yes I may have blanked out that day, a human tendency, and forgotten who the sanjeevani booti was brought for, but clearly you have also forgotten some of the lessons of forgive and forget taught by lord Ram himself.. If lord Ram can forgive Manthara, if he can forgive Kaikeyi..if he can even forgive Ravan after the great battle was done, surely you can let go of this extremely small thing in comparison.. not that I need your forgiveness.”
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Sonakshi further warned Khanna, urging him to stop bringing up the incident for attention, saying, “I definitely need you to forget and stop bringing up the same incident time and again to be back in the news at the expense of me and my family. And lastly, the next time you decide to say anything about the values my father has instilled in me..pleaşe remember it’s because of those values that I have only said what I said, very respectfully, after you decided to make some distasteful statements about my upbringing.”
Khanna, in an earlier interview, commented on Sonakshi’s error, saying, “This happened despite her being Shatrughan Sinha’s daughter. Her brothers are named Luv and Kush. Why didn’t they teach her this? Why did they become so modern?”
The incident on Kaun Banega Crorepati had sparked criticism, but Sonakshi had clarified then that her cautiousness stemmed from wanting to win the prize money for her contestant.