After months of waiting, Coldplay finally performed to a jampacked Mumbai venue on November 19, along with several other eminent international artistes such as AR Rehman, Jay Z and Demi Lovato.
The internet, since the performance, has been flooded with videos and photographs from the event. Martin did his absolute best to include Mumbai and India within the concert breaking into Channa Mereya, Maa Tujhe Salaam with our very own A.R. Rahman perform on the same stage.
While the whole Coldplay in Mumbai rage took over social media, media mogul and Rajya Sabha member Subhash Chandra was apparently quite ‘saddened’.
Subhash Chandra, previously the Chairman of Zee Media and currently a Member of the Rajya Sabha, took to Twitter to express his displeasure on the actions of Indian youth at the Coldplay event.
I was saddened to see our youth smoking, drinking wine & dancing in COLDPLAY my question do they also know Rabinder Sangeet & other cultural
— Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) November 20, 2016
With a couple of tweets, he expressed his disappointment that people thronged the Coldplay performance, while he wondered if they knew as much about India’s cultural heritage and art forms.
Aspects & Indian art forms? It’s high time we make our own cultural heritage COOL for our youth which is better than Coldplay
— Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) November 20, 2016
But, it seems that Chandra’s message struck a discord with Indian twitterati. His thoughts didn’t went down well with many who labelled him as a hypocrite for criticising the concert while his productin company releases ‘item songs’ and ‘threesome’ scenes. Also some pointed out him for correcting at his grammar mistake too.
Twitterati was quick to troll the media baron for his ‘sanskari tweet’. Here’s what they said:
1. Such sanskar!
Aise gaane theek rahenge sehat ke liye?https://t.co/jdkNNFRgIv
— Tarun Goel (@tarugoel) November 20, 2016
2. Much wow!
ya is type ke? https://t.co/IJTu49wDLy
— Tarun Goel (@tarugoel) November 20, 2016
3. Alok Nath would be proud!
.@subhashchandra sir, youth enjoying Rabindra sangeet promoted by Zee Muisc Company! pic.twitter.com/QvYFoP2jhZ
— GauravMishra (@mishrageee) November 20, 2016
4. What profound lyrics!
. @subhashchandra what was zee music promoting thru this song? pic.twitter.com/LcbUJunevi
— अंकित जैन (@indiantweeter) November 20, 2016
5. And artful TV shows!
First TV show to have Kiss on Indian TV was a Zee TV serial called Dillagi in 1993 by Neena Gupta. @subhashchandra https://t.co/3zuibNUYiO
— Sameer Khan (@SamKhan999) November 20, 2016
6. So brilliantly insightful!
. @subhashchandra Sir, forget Coldplay, your channel Zee news says even Foreplay doesnt matter, only SIZE https://t.co/5GVXqQLJy5 #Sanskaar
— Suryanarayan Ganesh (@gsurya) November 20, 2016
7. At least run a spell check before accusing an entire generation of going to waste.
that’s rabindra sir not rabinder!! #rabindranathtagore
— Santosh Gupta (@Insert_Smiley) November 20, 2016
@LangaMahesh pic.twitter.com/u1H5i9cZPQ
— N33R4J (@_N33R4J_) November 20, 2016
8. Mr Khatri at his hilarious best!
I was saddened to see you breaking the queue in a Jet flight to Delhi last month with such arrogance just because you were in Biz class https://t.co/WgRWgP0CTf
— Atul Khatri (@one_by_two) November 20, 2016
9. You knew you had that coming!
everybody knows rabindra sangeet, there is no such thing as rabinder sangeet unless it’s some b movie song on late night zee
— Suresh R (@iamabofh) November 20, 2016
I think that response should be lesson enough. I’m sure Mr Chandra will think twice, and run a spell check another dozen times before going off on a Twitter rant ever again!