Vikrant Massey Memes Viral After The Sabarmati Report Star 'Changes' Ideology: Ab Hindus Ko Baap...

Sabarmati Report: Vikrant Massey, Ridhi Dogra and Raashii Khanna will play journalists in movie inspired by "true events" that occurred on fateful morning of February 27 at Godhra Junction, 125 km away from Ahmedab, where a train carrying kar sevaks from Ayodhya were burnt to death. As film gears up for its atrical debut on vember 15, many on social media have pointed out Vikrant's "hypocrisy" during film promotions by bringing up his old remarks.

Vikrant Massey's old 'liberal' comments go viral before Sabarmati Report release

In conversation with Shubhankar Mishra on his show Unplugged, Vikrant said "I was a big critic of BJP . But as I travelled across country, I realised that things are t so b, Muslims are t in danger in country."

actor's comments have been seen as a U-Turn from his older beliefs, where he h largely me remarks questioning secularism in India while he criticised right-wing ideology. Many on social media claimed that since Vikrant needs support of a section of audience w to make his movie a hit, he is catering to m through his statements during recent interviews. Many memes of 12th Fail star have also gone viral on social media.

Vikrant compares Godhra train burning incident to 9/11 attacks

At trailer launch event of film, Vikrant Massey shared that he has received death threats on social media but he is t worried as Sabarmati Report, set in aftermath of Godhra train burning incident in 2002, is "purely based on facts".

"We re newspaper and move on and this has become a rm. But this was our 9/11 which changed our socio-political fabric overnight," actor said, drawing parallels with September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York and Godhra incident.