The 95th Acamdey Awards are a few hours away and fans will finally know who are the winners of the prestigious awards. Ahead of the Oscars 2023, social media is flooded with tweets and posts about winner predictions and more. Amid this, Bollywood actor Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor’s tweet on Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Yeoh has garnered attention for the wrong reasons.
Harsh Varrdhan’s tweet on Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar win
Without mincing his words, veteran actor Anil Kapoor’s son tweeted, “I’m getting nightmares about Cate Blanchett losing to Michelle Yeoh at the Oscar’s… how can a PR campaign centred around race put one of the best performances of all time in the shadows? Any opinions guys.”
His tweet left netizens irked and they took to the comments section to slam him.
Harsh Varrdhan deletes tweet after backlash
Reacting to the Thar actor’s post, a user wrote, “Its okay to love an actor’s performance over another, but to downplay another actor’s performance as a PR campaign is so disingenuous. Like you really have to be biased to think Michelle Yeoh’s performance isn’t great, if not one of the greatest of all times.” Harsh Varrdhan replied by writing, “She’s clearly trying to use it and do everything she can to edge forward in the race and not let it be only about the merit of the performance…”
Another commented, “I eat, sleep and breathe Bollywood. Half of my pop culture knowledge is defined by it. Focus on the colourism/racism of your industry instead of downplaying a veteran asian actress’ achievements. It’s not cute. And I bet you your dad and sister won’t like it either.” To this, Harsh Varrdhan replied,”If my opinion doesn’t matter why are you responding to my tweet? Yeoh on her instagram posted an article about how she should win because of diversity when Cate has publicly been so supportive of her… really a low blow I felt . She later deleted it after the backlash.”
“How do you define best performance.. what are the tangible parameters… There are so many who genuinely liked Michelle Yeoh’s performance… It is very subjective. It is an award no life altering damage… Even ur nightmares are elitist… Wow,” wrote a netizen. Harsh Varrdhan’s reply read: “Bhai phir mujhe mat follow kar na.”
The Bhavesh Joshi Superhero actor has purportedly deleted the tweet.
