Happy Birthday, Renuka Shahane: How the actress reinvented herself as a social media crusader

As Shahane celebrates her birthday on October 7 this year, here’s a recollection of some of her best Facebook posts. The actress, who turned 52, also shared an endearing collage of her childhood snapshot along with a recent picture on the networking website. “Time has wings doesn’t it?” she captioned it.

Here’s the adorable post on Facebook, that has garnered more than 4,500 likes so far.

Scroll down to see some of her powerful posts on social media that grabbed attention earlier.

Ryan International School murder

Evidently disturbed and shocked, Shahane, also a mother, asked — “How do we make things safe for our kids?” She numbered down all the discrepancies and security lapses on the part of the school which resulted in this horrific incident. She went on to suggest what as parents and responsible citizens they could do to avoid such mishaps in the future while also emphasising about the emotional and mental repercussions of child sexual abuse.

Take a look at the Facebook post here.

Mumbai rains

While torrential rains disrupted life in Mumbai and brought the city to a standstill on August 29, the nation saw hundreds of people uniting against the disaster and joining hands to save each other — without caring about religion, caste or creed. And that somehow became the lesson of nature to people. Expressing her feelings about the same, Renuka Shahane wrote a heartfelt post on Facebook explaining how “nature teaches us time and again that all these divisions are useless.”

Check out the original post here.

‘Not In My Name’ protest

A 16-year-old boy named Junaid Khan was brutally stabbed to death on a train by a mob of cruel, bloodthirsty individuals while returning from Delhi along with his two brothers after Eid shopping. The shocking incident left many baffled. In the wake of the protests, Renuka Shahane, who is popular for her strong opinions on social media, also posted a long message on Facebook. Stressing on the fact that “innocence dies when hate rules”, she expressed her thoughts in a powerful post.

See what she wrote here.

The ‘kingfisher’ chatter for Vijay Mallya

Shedding light on how Mallya’s business anomalies have turned into a bane for the poor, here’s what she wrote in the voice of the bright-winged bird. Calling him “the king of good times NOT”, she directed her satire at business tycoon Vijay Mallya, who is the owner of the now defunct Kingfisher airlines. Without a trace of his name in her post, she cleverly slammed him right in the face.

Read the full post she shared on Facebook.

A conversation with a journalist

What’s the first thing a journalist is expected to do before deciding to interview a well-known personality, picking up the phone and calling them? READ about them, what they’ve done, maybe even compile a questionnaire. But this journalist, as Renuka writes, didn’t do his/her homework as a result of which, she found out she was in serials where she never was and why she should sharpen her drawing pencils when attending phone calls. Need clarity? Check out this conversation that happened between the actor and her interviewer.

Read what she wrote in her Facebook post here.

Salman Khan’s acquittal on black buck case

After Salman Khan was acquitted by the Rajasthan High Court in two cases related to poaching of chinkaras in Jodhpur, Shahane wrote a long post dripping with sass that soon went viral.

Read the original post here.