Indian shuttler PV Sindhu’s win in women’s singles in Badminton, after defeating Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara at Rio Olympics 2016 on Thursday night, has guaranteed India a first Olympic silver medal.
The World No. 10 from Hyderabad will next take on two-time World Champion Carolina Marin from Spain in the summit clash on Friday. Sindhu made her way into the semis by defeating world number two Wang Yihan of China in the quarter-finals. Sindhu became India’s first ever shuttler to reach the final of this sport in Olympics. While Twitter was abuzz with congratulatory messages for Sindhu for her stellar performance, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan’s tweet clearly stood out.
While our athletes have made us more than proud, a few days ago, the columnist Shobhaa De had mocked the Indian Olympians at Rio and stated that the athletes went to Rio just to “take selfies” and would return “empty-handed”.
Goal of Team India at the Olympics: Rio jao. Selfies lo. Khaali haat wapas aao. What a waste of money and opportunity.
— Shobhaa De (@DeShobhaa) August 8, 2016
Amitabh Bachchan, who is an avid sports fan and has been encouraging the Indian contingent through his tweets and blogs, lauded the shuttler and had an apt response to Shobhaa De’s tweet.
T 2352 – YEEEAAAAHHHHHH !! COME ON INDIA .. PV Sindhu in FINALS of Womens Badminbton at #Rio2016 .. another women from India ! HISTORIC
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) August 18, 2016
T 2352 – #PVSindhu .. aap “khaali haath” nahein, medal leke wapas aa rahein hain .. aur hum aapke saath ‘selfie’ nikalne chahate hain !!
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) August 18, 2016
T 2352 – Never ever underestimate power of female gender ! #PVSindhu you have destroyed so many ‘naysayers’ .. you are the PRIDE of INDIA !
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) August 18, 2016
T 2352 – #PVSindhu …aapne ‘bolne walon’ ki bolti bund kar di .. karm bolta hai aur wo kabhi kabhi ‘kalam’ ko bhi hara deta hai ! BADHAI !!
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) August 18, 2016
After selfie comment, She was once again in the line of fire on Twitter for one of her tweets on PV Sindhu’s win against Japanese N Okuhara in the Olympics semi-finals.
Here’s Shobhaa De’s Tweet on PV Sindhu:
PV SINDHU Silver Princess ?
— Shobhaa De (@DeShobhaa) August 18, 2016
Twitterati slams Shobhaa De again for her comment on PV Sindhu:
@DeShobhaa just shut up. She can win the gold as well.
— Manash Pratim Gohain (@morphineworld) August 18, 2016
@DeShobhaa you’ve no right to celebrate after your selfie comment. Stay out of it
— Himamshu (@assistant_ozil) August 18, 2016
@DeShobhaa Silver or Gold it’s just a colour ,she is someone who made 125 crore people happy today
— Akshay Arora (@iakshayarora) August 18, 2016
We can never tell if the dig was unintentional but it was a well-deserved one for sure! Meanwhile, B-Town went berserk after Sindhu’s victory. Shah Rukh and Aamir Khan also congratulated Sindhu on her win.
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