Shah Rukh Khan asks Twitter to block Shirish Kunder. NOT
Shirish Kunder is what Twitter was talking about on Sunday evening. And Shah Rukh Khan had a role to play.
On Sunday evening, several Chirstmas-Holiday-revellers, who had the misfortune of visiting Twitter, were in for a surprise. Given the fact that Twitter trends are hardly predictable, seeing Shirish Kunder's name on the Top India trends did make some people stare at it for a while.
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Most people who have had to pass through the cruel initiation rite of knowing the biggest fights Bollywood has ever seen will obviously remember Shirish Kunder. The filmmaker, who is married to choreographer-filmmaker-actor Farah Khan, had once been on the receiving end of a slap from Shah Rukh Khan.
In case you don't remember the reason, Shah Rukh flying off the handle was caused by Kunder's darts on Ra.One, the actor's then-just-released sci-fi film. The two had put their differences aside later, and Shah Rukh and Farah had worked together for the 2014 film Happy New Year.
So when one clicked on Shirish Kunder's name on the Twitter India trends on Sunday evening, the page threw up a screenshot of a tweet by Shah Rukh Khan, which ran: "Who is this Shirish Kunder? Visited Farah's home several times, never found him. Always found a male maid with smartphone in hand always. #BlockShirishKunder LOL". And this screenshot was accompanied by a tweet saying that Shah Rukh had apparently tweeted this and deleted the tweet.
SRK tweet hilarious on Shirish Kunder and then delete tweet. RT & Share. pic.twitter.com/kbYGWsnNOE Gayatri Reddy (@Gayatritwit) December 27, 2015
Well, well.
Seems like the people crusading for others to Block Shirish Kunder on Twitter and claim Shah Rukh as their messiah missed a tiny but crucial point. The tweet - screenshot - of Shah Rukh's 'deleted tweet' was just longer by about 21 characters than what Twitter permits.
So why the anger against someone like a Shirish Kunder?
Turns out Kunder's tweets on Bhakts, pro-Narendra Modi Twitter users (read: trolls), were what resulted in the tweet-storm against him. Shirish had tweeted the following:
Encourage Bhakts on Twitter. That will keep them off the real world. Shirish Kunder (@ShirishKunder) December 26, 2015
And then:
Bhakts blocking you is like cockroaches committing suicide. Good riddance! #BlockShirishKunder Shirish Kunder (@ShirishKunder) December 26, 2015
Meanwhile, Shah Rukh Khan never quite got to Twitter till the time of filing this. And as for Shirish Kunder, this was a summing-it-up tweet:
Once you understand the fact that Bhakts are idiots not by choice, you'll feel less anger for them. Shirish Kunder (@ShirishKunder) December 27, 2015