Karan Johar, Akshay Kumar clap back at General Dyer’s granddaughter calling Jallianwala Bagh massacre victim ‘looter’: ‘How dare she?’

“This one is an absolutely outstanding story of C Shankaran Nair, based on the book, The Case That Shook The Empire. We knew the massacre, but none of us knew the truth. Every time we have watched the tragedy, we have felt the pain, the anger. What makes us all angry is that there isn’t an apology even now. Neither the crown, nor the monarchy or the British Government apologized. We came out of the British Raaj valiantly as a country, but as a nation we deserve an apology and this film demands just that,” he said.

Earlier, in an interview General Dyer’ granddaughter spoke to a family member of the victim where she said, “General Dyer is an honorable man, greatly liked by the Indians, who spoke three or four Indian languages which very few people did.”

Responding to the victim’s family, she asked, “Was he a looter? I think history is history and you’ve got to accept that.”

Reacting to this, Karan Johar said, “I have seen that video, and not just as an Indian or humanitarian, but as anyone who has an iota of empathy, it will anger you. How ridiculous was she to say that, and how dare she? She was calling those thousands of people looters, they were innocent people who collected on the auspicious day of Baisakhi, thinking something else was going to be the eventuality of the day. By his own admission, General Dyer said that he only stopped shooting when the bullets ran out.”

“She went on in an interview to say that he loved India, and all kinds of things that he had the greatest compassion. What love can you have, when your actions only spoke of hate. She is living in a lala land of her own and in some delusion. I don’t know her, haven’t met her, and don’t wish to. The fact that she even said those things boiled my blood, she had such disdain for the biggest genocide in the history of our nation, that it made me demand an apology even more,” Karan added.

Akshay Kumar also shared his views and said, “One nation’s trauma is another nation’s lesson. That is what she never understood and kept saying History is history. I appreciate what Karan said and the way he said it.”

Kesari 2 releases in theaters on 18th April.