Vijay Varma explains what’s wrong with cancel culture  – Bollywood News

Gifted actor Vijay Varma was recently seen in Alia Bhatt and Shefali Shah starrer ‘Darlings’ and just like always, he managed to impress the audience with an amazing performance. At the time of its release, ‘Darlings’ also faced some boycott demands like Aamir Khan’s ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ and Akshay Kumar’s ‘Raksha Bandhan’ but since it was a digital release, these demands were largely ineffective.

In a recent conversation with India Today, Vijay shared his take on this ongoing boycott culture and talked about how illogical it is. The actor said, “It can scare you. It has just gone a bit overboard now. I feel something that you said 10 years ago could have been objectionable, and made a few people raise their eyebrows. It could be a prevalent exercise at that time, but in today’s times, it is no longer frowned upon. I feel you cannot be cancelled for something like that. For example, I go to a house in Rajasthan and there are leopard and tiger skins on display. When that house was probably built it was very normal to have dead animal skins on display…We have now understood how dangerous and cruel this is for the wildlife and animals. But people at that time, a family who has seen four generations of animal skins on their wall and have not educated themselves. Can we cancel them?”

Vijay continued, “If they have not educated themselves and are not in sync with the current times, do we become so bad to them that they get cancelled in a rude way? These are thoughts I keep thinking about. I don’t really have an answer. I feel education and catching up on times is very important. But times and trends are changing so quickly. A comedian who must have said something 10 years ago, can have those lines come back to haunt him right now.”