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Published 15:14 IST, June 18th 2019

Sonam Kapoor slams Vivek Oberoi's derogatory 'It's life' post on Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan and Abhishek Bachchan; Athiya Shetty agrees

Sonam Kapoor slams Vivek Oberoi's distasteful meme on Elections featuring Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan and Abhishek Bachchan.

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Sonam Kapoor slams Vivek Oberoi's derogatory 'It's life' post on Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan and Abhishek Bachchan; Athiya Shetty agrees
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Vivek Oberoi shared a meme on his Twitter handle featuring himself, Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan and Salman Khan. He captioned it by saying: ""Haha! creative! No politics here....just life Credits : @pavansingh1985." [sic]

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Minutes later, the actor was slammed by various eminent personalities like Jwala Gutta, VJ Ria and more. Actress Sonam Kapoor who is known to voice her opinion also called it 'disgusting and classless'. Athiya Shetty liked the tweet.

READ | Vivek Oberoi Shares Obnoxious Meme On Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Salman Khan And Abhishek Bachchan; Faces Huge Backlash

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The projections of Exit Polls have not only stimulated conversations among politicians but has also reached Bollywood, however, Oberoi went far ahead with his joke and dug out Aishwarya Rai's alleged former relationships and her husband Abhishek Bachchan in the tweet to fit in the current political discourse. 

Corresponding her alleged relationships into three electoral category- he shared the actress' picture with Salman Khan as 'Opinion poll', her picture with himself as 'Exit Poll' and lastly with her husband and daughter Aaradhya Bachchan as 'Result'.

Meanwhile, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi on Monday launched a new poster here of 'PM Narendra Modi', a biopic of the prime minister.
The film is slated for release across 40 countries, on May 24, a day after results of the general elections are announced.

"Ab aa rahe hai dobara, PM Narendra Modi. Ab koi rok nahi sakta [ PM Narendra Modi is returning to power, no one can stop him now]," reads the new poster.

"I know it had been a difficult journey, especially the part where we had to struggle to get this film till here. Many powerful leaders formed a grand alliance to stop us, but as we all can see they failed terribly. Our wish is that every Indian goes to watch this patriotic film with their family" said Oberoi addressing reporters after the launch of the poster.
Oberoi essays the character of Modi in the film.

Film's director Omung Kumar B posted on his twitter handle: "In India, all big things are started with a blow of the conch. Here's presenting the new poster of #PMNarendraModi."
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari feels that the biopic will leave a positive impact on the youth of the country and praised the biopic's producer Sandeep Singh.

16:18 IST, May 20th 2019