{"id":312490,"date":"2019-05-21T06:52:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T06:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312490"},"modified":"2019-05-21T06:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T06:52:17","slug":"vivek-oberoi-apologises-deletes-tweet-after-sharing-meme-on-aishwarya-rai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/vivek-oberoi-apologises-deletes-tweet-after-sharing-meme-on-aishwarya-rai\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Oberoi apologises, deletes tweet after sharing meme on Aishwarya Rai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312491 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/vivek-news-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/vivek-news-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/vivek-news.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bollywood Actor Vivek Oberoi on Tuesday apologised for sharing a meme on exit polls featuring actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. He also deleted the controversial tweet after being severely criticised on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cEven if one woman is offended by my reply to the meme, it calls for remedial action. Apologies tweet deleted,\u201d Oberoi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSometimes what appears to be funny and harmless at first glance to one, may not be so to others. I have spent the last 10 years empowering more than 2000 underprivileged girls, I cant even think of being disrespectful to any woman ever,\u201d Oberoi said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vivek Oberoi posted a meme featuring photos of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with actor Salman Khan, with Vivek Oberoi and with her husband Abhishek Bachchan and daughter Aaradhya. The pictures were captioned &#8220;opinion polls&#8221;, &#8220;exit polls&#8221; and &#8220;results&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Monday sent a notice to Vivek Oberoi for posting a meme about Aishwarya Rai Bachchan\u2019s personal life and comparing it with the Lok Sabha elections exit polls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma called Vivek Oberoi\u2019s tweet \u201cdistasteful\u201d and \u201cdisgusting\u201d, but also said that a legal notice will be served to the actor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood Actor Vivek Oberoi on Tuesday apologised for sharing a meme on exit polls featuring actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. He also deleted the controversial tweet after being severely criticised on social media. \u201cEven if one woman is offended by my reply to the meme, it calls for remedial action. Apologies tweet deleted,\u201d Oberoi tweeted. \u201cSometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11396],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312492,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312490\/revisions\/312492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}