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Photos of Ranbir Kapoor and Mahira Khan enjoying a smoke are all over the internet. These pictures were taken outside a hotel in New York in June this year.
Once the photos surfaced, Mahira was bombarded with hate posts. She was trolled for wearing a short backless dress and smoking a cigarette in Ranbir's company.
After keeping quiet for a while, Ranbir reacted to the pictures that have gone viral.
"I've gotten to know Mahira in a personal capacity over the last few months. She is somebody who I admire and respect, for her achievements and even more for the person she is. It is very unfair the way she is being judged and spoken about. What is also sad is the inequality in judgment just because she is a woman. I request you to stop the negativity and move on with your beautiful god gifted lives. Peace and love," the actor told NDTV.
In a final message to the trolls, he added, "PS: Both smoking and hate are injurious to health."
Earlier, Parineeti Chopra and Ali Zafar came in support of Mahira. Daddy Rishi Kapoor was quoted by a daily as saying: "Ranbir is a young star, he is unmarried, and he's a bachelor. He can meet anybody whoever he wants to, and if people are going to invade in his privacy, it's not done. And I can't say anything about all this because he's a young man and he has the choice of meeting any girl.
"How do we know that here's something more to this picture? He could have met her just outside there. They must have been in a restaurant or a place where they cannot smoke, that's why they are smoking outside. In US, they have really strict rules that don't allow smoking in public places."
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