Sonakshi Sinha hits back at Mukesh Khanna for remarks about her upbringing

Actor Sonakshi Sinha slammed veteran actor Mukesh Khanna for his 'distasteful' remark about her upbringing for not answering a question about Ramayana many years ago. She condemned him for his repeated insults and asked him to move on.

In Short

• Sonakshi Sinha responded to Mukesh Khanna's criticism about her upbringing
• Khanna blamed her father for her slip-up on a question about Ramayana
• Sonakshi asked Khanna to forgive and forget

Actor Sonakshi Sinha condemned veteran actor Mukesh Khanna after his repeated attacks on her upbringing. In a past appearance on Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) in 2019, she failed to answer a question about Lord Hanuman. Mukesh recently blamed her father, Shatrughan Sinha, for not teaching her about Ramayana. In a long post on Instagram Stories, she 'respectfully' asked him to stop and forget the incident.

In her post, she wrote, "Dear Sir, Mukesh Khanna ji...i recently read a statement you made saying that it's my father's fault I did not answer a question about the Ramayana correctly on a show i attended many, many years back (sic)."

She went on to explain that there were two more women on the hot seat who failed to answer the question, but she is being picked on repeatedly. "But, you choose to keep taking my name, and only my name, for reasons which are quite obvious. Yes i may have blanked out that day, a human tendency and forgotten who the sanjeevani booti was brought for (sic)."

Sonakshi reminded Mukesh Khanna of the lessons taught by Lord Ram. "Clearly, you have also forgotten some of the lessons of forgive and forget by lord Ram himself...if lord Ram can forgive Manthara, if he can forgive Kaikeyi...if he can even forgive Ravan after the great battle was done, surely you can let go of this extremely small thing in comparison...not that i need your forgiveness (sic)," her post read.

The actor then stressed the fact that Mukesh should stop bringing up the incident again. "I need you to forget and stop bringing up the same incident time and again to be back in the news at the expense of me and my family," she said as she called him out.

She concluded her note saying, "The next time you decide to say anything about the values my father has instilled in me...please remember its because of those values that i have only said what i said, very respectfully, after you decided to make some distasteful statements about my upbringing. I wish you well (sic)."

Commenting on Sonakshi Sinha's slip-up, Mukesh Khanna, in an interview with Siddharth Kannan, said, "People were angry that Sonakshi didn’t know this, but I would say it’s not her fault—it’s her father’s fault. Why didn’t they teach their children this? Why did they become so modern? If I were Shaktimaan today, I would make kids sit down and teach them about Indian culture and Sanatan Dharma.”

In 2019, Sonakshi Sinha appeared on Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 11. She took a lifeline to answer the question about Ramayana and was trolled mercilessly on X (then Twitter).