Actor Rajinikanth met Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath at his residence in Lucknow on Saturday. A video of Rajinikanth touching Yogi Adityanath’s ft after greeting him has gone viral with a bit of social media customers calling their interplay ‘surprising’ and ‘cringeworthy’. Nonetheless, some are defending the veteran actor and supporting his motion. Additionally learn: Rajinikanth meets Akhilesh Yadav after 9 years, greets him with a hug
Video of Rajinikanth touching Yogi Adityanath’s ft
Rajinikanth had arrived within the metropolis on Friday for the screening of his movie Jailer, which was attended by UP deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya. Images and movies of Rajinikanth’s interplay on Saturday with Yogi Adityanath have been being broadly shared on numerous social media platforms.
The actor, after getting off his automotive and greeting the UP CM with Namaste and touching his ft, gave him a flower bouquet they usually each posed for photographers.
Reactions to Rajinikanth-Yogi Adityanath’s video
“The largest facepalm and cringefest video of the month,” wrote a Twitter or X person. One other one wrote, “This man (Rajinikanth) is a disgrace to Tamil Nadu. Spirituality has by no means been about shedding self respect!” A tweet additionally learn, “What a fall!! 72-year-old Rajinikanth touching the ft of 51-year-old Yogi Adityanath…” An individual additionally wrote, “That is surprising!”
An individual reacted to a Reddit publish about their interplay, “If he (Rajinikanth) was just an actor like other heroes, I wouldn’t have cared much about that incident. But he is the face of south India. One of the very few celebrities that they can identify from us. Especially in Delhi, when I introduced myself as Tamilan, they said we love Rajinikanth, watch his Tamil films in Hindi etc. Many people don’t even know there is a state named Tamil Nadu, but they know Rajinikanth. He should’ve maintained that respect. Even though people from north aren’t going to find any fault in this. It’s us, who are deeply disappointed.”
Defending the actor, an individual wrote on Twitter or X, “Do not perceive the hue and cry over celebrity @rajinikanth touching the ft of @myogiadityanath. Other than being a politician and chief minister of UP, Yogi ji can also be an elevated Nath Yogi and the top of illustrious Gorakhnath Math. You bow to the lineage he represents!”
One other individual wrote, “Wonderful respect for tradition proven by none apart from Thalaiva. @rajinikanth ji took blessings of Mahant of Gorakhpur Math and honorable @CMOfficeUP Shri @myogiadityanath ji. Not as a result of he’s CM, however he bowed right down to mathadhish and sanyasi (monk).”
Commerce analyst Ramesh Bala additionally tweeted the video and wrote, “Listed here are the 2 opposing views… View 1: A big part of the Folks of TN (Tamil Nadu) are upset that celebrity fell on the ft of UP CM… View 2: UP CM is Mahant of Ghoraknath Mutt.. So celebrity fell on his ft for spiritual causes… Your take?”
Rajinikanth meets Akhilesh Yadav
A day after a ‘courtesy assembly’ with Yogi Adityanath, Rajinikanth on Sunday met Samajwadi Social gathering president Akhilesh Yadav on the latter’s residence in Lucknow. Rajinikanth, who’s basking within the success of his newest movie Jailer, stated he was blissful to reconnect with ‘friend’ Akhilesh Yadav after nearly a decade.
Akhilesh shared a collection of photographs from the assembly with Rajinikanth by way of his account on X, previously known as Twitter. He wrote together with their photographs, “When hearts meet, people embrace. During my engineering studies in Mysore, the happiness I used to feel seeing Rajinikanth ji on the screen is still intact. We met in person 9 years back and have been friends ever since…”
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