Cyclone Tauktae has caused massive destruction in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Kerala and other coastal areas in the past 3 days. Visuals of uprooted trees, broken houses, and floods took over social media and it was a heartbreaking sight. Several people have been missing in both Mumbai and Gujarat and a few casualties have been reported.
Amidst the chaos, one actress named Deepika Singh, who starred in the Hindi serial ‘Diya Aur Bati Hum’, took to Instagram to post pictures of herself posing and dancing around a fallen tree that was uprooted due to the cyclone near her house.
“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself, embrace nature and its gloomy moods because the storm will pass,” she wrote.
Screenshots of her post were soon shared on Twitter by a user and it went viral, gathering several conflicting reactions.
Today we have a girlboss posing with (in?) a tree that fell because of the cyclone currently ravaging India’s west coast. pic.twitter.com/gmBVlkWZH3
— Iva (@ivadixit) May 18, 2021
While some accused her of romanticizing a natural calamity, others supported her by saying that she just wanted to have some fun amidst the chaos.
insensitive person I mean people were scared yesterday if trees will fall on them and this madam doing poses on that smh https://t.co/RJz8n284CM
— 💛🇮🇳🏏 (@anu_sherigar) May 18, 2021
Cyclones but make it fashion 🤦🏽♀️
— Mamta Badkar (@mamtabadkar) May 18, 2021
Also, I wish I had even half of her level of motivation to get me through every day. 🙄
— Shirsha (@sageandbloom_) May 18, 2021
Love that girlboss is #collectingmoments in a cyclone that is wrecking people’s homes. Such moments are truly the equivalent to #fullmadness and #therapy
— B (@pseudosabya) May 18, 2021
Theek hai yaar. I don’t think she was trying to be douchy, seems like a sensible person from her caption. Everyone has different ways of looking at things.
— Mrigank (@mri9ank) May 18, 2021
What’s with the sudden urge to shame everyone who wants to have some fun in the middle of all this chaos?
— Apurva Prasad (@apurvaprasad) May 18, 2021
And I was working in the rain to provide uninterrupted power supply to the city 😭😭 https://t.co/o4Fch6QFjO
— ᴮᴱNamu⁷ 🌱🐋 missing Namu 🌳🐨 // ia (@ilsankingknj) May 19, 2021
WTF like really ? These so called celebs have totally lost it 🤢 https://t.co/2H5ie3VrDH
— Pooja Shah (@_PoojaShah) May 18, 2021
This is Really Shame Deepika singh BMC and Police Chila chilla kar Bol rahi hai Bahar mat nikalo Ghar pe Raho
Oh I Forgot You Played IPS Na Sadhya Bahu in Diya Aur Baati hum https://t.co/WTuziUEElF— Harsh The Strongest Avenger (@HarshMCU) May 18, 2021
In a similar incident, popular social media influencer Ranveer Allahbadia, popularly known as ‘BeerBiceps’ shared a video of himself dancing in the rain during the cyclone. His video faced massive flak online.
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