When some of us are listening to certain musical genres like Rap, Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, the lyrics sometimes aren’t clear and we end up getting the lyrics wrong if and when we try humming that song.
According to a quote by Hindustan Times, this is what seems to have happened with Actress Sonam Kapoor but the lyrics which she apparently ended up getting wrong were not of any song but were of our National anthem.
The Hindustan Times has been running a #LetsTalkAboutTrolls campaign and Sonam Kapoor wrote an article about her experiences with so called trolls and one paragraph seems to have come back to haunt her:
Notice the line:
“Listen to the national anthem. Recall the line you heard as kids, ‘Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Issai…’
There was a slight problem for people to recollect that line as it isn’t there in the 1st place. This resulted in her getting ‘trolled’ by people:
Dear @sonamakapoor, some of us have heard the national anthem as adults as well. Plz do tell which line says “Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Issai” pic.twitter.com/P2ka4FBbOX
— Neha Srivastava (@neha_aks) April 21, 2017
#QOTD: Chhaliya mera naam is the national anthem of which country? pic.twitter.com/QfTjul6zFL
— Brakoo’s Yoginess (@brakoo) April 21, 2017
.@sonamakapoor After teaching meaning of misogyny to illiterate trolls, @SonamaKapoor teaches national anthem. Bas acting sikhna baki rah gaya ?? pic.twitter.com/3y56WlWBLI
— Ishant Sharma (@CrimeMasterV2) April 21, 2017
#BetiPadhaoBetiBachaopic.twitter.com/JwuvCj8rIE
— दिव्या (@divya_16_) April 21, 2017
Will one be branded a troll to ask where does in our national anthem these lines appear? #LetsTalkAboutTrolls @sonamakapoor pic.twitter.com/h1LGIuuET3
— हम भारत के लोग (@India_Policy) April 21, 2017
Some even questioned HT’s editorial team for letting it pass:
The worst part is @htTweets publishes it with all elan! Without even questioning Sonam Kapoor.https://t.co/FkTV9HL4hW
— Maya (@Sharanyashettyy) April 21, 2017
Who’s the bigger dolt – A starlet who doesn’t know her National Anthem, or an editor who let this pass?#LetsTalkAboutTrolls indeed
😀 pic.twitter.com/u9jtZ6nzH8— Harpreet (@CestMoiz) April 21, 2017
Incredibly the story did not end here, one user pointed out that the ‘Hindu Muslim Sikh Isai’ words are indeed mentioned in the 2nd paragraph of, Jana Gana mana. This was retweeted by Sonam:
@India_Policy @sonamakapoor Actually, the second stanza of jana gana mana has the words “Hindu Bauddh Shikha Jain, Parasik Musolman Christaani”. #NationalAnthem pic.twitter.com/QvZXdbFPI3
— Kriti Trehan-Lahiri (@krititrehan) April 21, 2017
The user also claimed that Sonam learnt the complete composition:
@India_Policy @sonamakapoor She probably learnt the complete composition. as opposed to the more popular 52 second version.
— Kriti Trehan-Lahiri (@krititrehan) April 21, 2017
Though it is certainly commendable if Sonam indeed learnt all the 5 stanzas of the poem by Rabindranath Tagore, her claim about this being a part of our National Anthem was still wrong. Our national anthem is just the 1st of stanza of the Jana Gana Mana song which was a translated version of Tagore’s Bengali hymn ”Bharot bhagyo bidhata“. Had Sonam written, “listen to Tagore’s peom” she would have been completely right and all the ‘trolling’ would have been misplaced.
Sonam tweeted her response to the whole controversy but didn’t acknowledge her gaffe:
Thank you so much twitter for the amazing response to my article and also to the #trolls who proved my point by the way they responded ?❤??
— Sonam Kapoor (@sonamakapoor) April 21, 2017
This isn’t the only time celebs have got certain aspects of civics wrong. On Coffee with Karan when the question about who the President of India was asked, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhavan had shockingly answered, Prithviraj Chavan and Manmohan Singh respectively.
