Mukesh Khanna Takes A Dig At Sonakshi Sinha; Says, “Reruns of Mahabharat, Ramayan would help people like her”

Ramayan and Mahabharat are retelecasted on television to entertain the public during the lockdown. Mukesh Khanna, who played Bhisma Pitamah in Mahabharat feels that reruns of Ramayan and Mahabharat will be useful for people who haven’t watched them before.

Taking a dig at Sonakshi Sinha, Mukesh Khanna told Times of India, “I think the reruns will be useful to many who haven’t watched the show earlier. It will also help people like Sonakshi Sinha who have no knowledge about our mythological sagas. People like her don’t know who did lord Hunuman get Sanjivani for. There is a video doing the rounds where few boys are asked whose Mama (uncle) was Kans and they got scared to answer. Some said Duryodhan, others said something else, so they are not aware of the mythology.”

For the unversed, Sonakshi Sinha stirred up controversy when she failed to name the person for whom Lord Hanuman had brought “sanjeevani” in the Ramayana epic when she appeared in the quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati.

Mukesh Khanna also spoke about the daily soaps specially the saas-bahu serials. He said, “I feel these daily soaps have polluted the minds and now it is the time to sanitize it. I don’t think the women who are shown in these daily soaps belong to my or our country. To understand what our women are made of and what they are exactly watch Ramayan and Mahabharat. I am going to say something which might hurt many and they might feel I am wrong, but there was a time when TV took over Radio, and now 24 hours news channels and online news have taken over newspapers. Similarly, saas-bahu shows have killed the good bi-weekly shows, they want to watch this drama Monday to Saturday. I won’t blame Ekta Kapoor entirely. When she made Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, 30 similar shows featuring saas-bahu got made. And I am sorry to say the women which she shows we don’t see in real-life. Her shows or these saas-bahu shows have women sleeping in designer saris, loud makeup and heavy jewellery and then waking up in it. I don’t see such women around me.”

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