Karan Johar faces flak after liking a tweet that put Shah Rukh Khan in bad light against Akshay Kumar

Looks like Karan Johar is receiving quite a lot of hate on Twitter after he accidentally liked a tweet that abused Shah Rukh Khan against Akshay Kumar. #ShameOnKaranJohar is currently trending on Number 5 on India trends with over 45,000 tweets. 

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A user called Mannu Yav re, "Half day colls [collections] of Kesari on Holi day (which is worse than pre diwali day) [is] greater than Zero full festival day collection." tweet furr compared stardom of Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar. user used expletives in his tweet to describe same.

Looks like it was probably liked mistakenly because tweet doesn't exist on Karan Johar's Twitter 'Likes' section now.

As #ShameOnKaranJohar trended, a lot of Shah Rukh Khan fans, Salman Khan fans, Akshay Kumar fans started taking sides and attacking Karan Johar. One user wrote: " man who shows believe on you always and support you in starting of your carrer who once rey to take bullet for you and now you are disrespected that person only #ShameOnKaranJohar its really very shameful @karanjohar you should ask apology for this act."

or user wrote: "Having 1 priceless friend like @BeingSalmanKhan is better than having 100 worthless friends like @karanjohar !! #ShameOnKaranJohar"

One fan wrote: "I feel that self trolling abusers in Akki Sir fans are paid by Karan Sir. Karan Sir must've been monitoring work of his boys and accidentally liked tweet. #ShameOnKaranJohar"

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Talking about film 'Kesari', movie has set box-office on fire as it collected Rs. 21.06 crore on Day 1, making it highest opener of 2019 after Zoya Akhtar's 'Gully Boy'.

"Kesari" is based on Battle of Saragarhi fought between British Indian army's Sikh Regiment comprising of 21 soldiers and 10,000 Afghan tribesmen in 1897. 

Apart from Akshay, film also features Parineeti Chopra, Mir Sarwar, Vansh Bhardwaj and Ashwath Bhatt among ors in pivotal roles.

Based on legend of Battle of Saragarhi of 1897, is co-written by Girish Kohli and Anurag Singh, film has been produced by Johar’s Dharma Productions, Cape of Good Films and Azure Entertainment.