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Pooja Bhatt Had The Perfect Response For Those Trolling Priyanka Chopra For Quantico's Hindu Terror Plot

She was one of the few from the industry who stood up for PC.
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Priyanka Chopra was relentlessly trolled on Twitter after an episode of her ABC show, Quantico, featured a plot that had a Hindu character as the mastermind behind a terror attempt in Manhattan.

The right-leaning Twitter mob was pissed that 'Indians were shown in bad light' and an outpour of bigotry, hate, and general malice was directed towards Chopra's Twitter feed.

For instance:

There were the usual suspects:

While there were some sane voices that argued that the show is fictional, ultimately both PC and ABC had to apologise.

While Bollywood, as usual, remained mum, actor-producer Pooja Bhatt was one of the few who came in support of PC. She said:

Aisi Taisi Democracy summed up the senseless trolling in an even better way:

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