Celebrities have always been an easy target for trolls on social media, and even their family members get dragged into it. Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor’s sister Anshula Kapoor faced something similar recently.
The Gunday actor and his half-sister Jahnvi Kapoor graced the Koffee with Karan couch in the latest episode. In the show, during a game, Jahnvi and Arjun were asked to call any one of their relatives and ask them to say, “Hey Karan, what’s up.” The former called up Anshula to make her say it but Arjun prevents her from saying it if she wanted him to come home. Arjun won the game as Anshula doesn’t say it.
She was heavily trolled on social media for not helping her half-sister.
During a panel discussion at Facebook’s Mumbai office, Jahnvi Kapoor revealed that Anshula was given “rape threats” over the incident. “My sister actually just recently got trolled on social media. She did something silly on Koffee with Karan and started getting like rape threats and stuff. And it was just weird to me. As people are faceless on social media, they feel they can have opinions that sometimes cross a moral line. So when I put stuff that’s personal up on social media, I do think of that too. I feel protective towards them… what people might say about them or about my equation with them. You tend to be guarded,” she said.
Arjun Kapoor has now slammed the trolls who abused his sister for nothing on Twitter. “Something I assumed was an absolute non issue on Koffee with Karan has escalated into @anshulakapoor being abused & I can’t be bothered by protocol anymore. F**k all those trolls who wish harm to my sister. I hope ur mom or sister never have to go thru what u have put us thru…” the tweet read.
Something I assumed was an absolute non issue on Koffee with Karan has escalated into @anshulakapoor being abused & I can’t be bothered by protocol anymore. F**k all those trolls who wish harm to my sister. I hope ur mom or sister never have to go thru what u have put us thru…
— Arjun Kapoor (@arjunk26) November 27, 2018