S. Chandra Slams Coldplay And Twitter Trolls Him By Bringing Zee’s “Sanskari” Work To Light

The Global Citizen Festival in India was a stellar success with Coldplay being the supreme highlight of the evening. However, not everyone seemed impressed by the band’s performance.

Subhash Chandra, previously the Chairman of Zee Media and currently a Member of the Rajya Sabha, took to Twitter to express his displeasure about the Coldplay event.

I was saddened to see our youth smoking, drinking wine & dancing in COLDPLAY my question do they also know Rabinder Sangeet & other cultural

— Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) November 20, 2016

Aspects & Indian art forms? It's high time we make our own cultural heritage COOL for our youth which is better than Coldplay

— Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) November 20, 2016

Mr Chandra so conveniently assumed that since the country’s youth enjoys listening to Coldplay, we are all unappreciative about any other form of music and our entire generation is doomed.

 

Indian Twitter was quick to respond to Mr Chandra’s unsolicited comments and called the MP out on his hypocrisy:

1. Such sanskar!

Aise gaane theek rahenge sehat ke liye?https://t.co/jdkNNFRgIv

— Tarun Goel (@tarugoel) November 20, 2016

 

2. Much wow!

ya is type ke? https://t.co/IJTu49wDLy

— Tarun Goel (@tarugoel) November 20, 2016

 

3. Alok Nath would be proud!

.@subhashchandra sir, youth enjoying Rabindra sangeet promoted by Zee Muisc Company! pic.twitter.com/QvYFoP2jhZ

— Gaums (@mishrageee) November 20, 2016

 

4. What profound lyrics!

. @subhashchandra what was zee music promoting thru this song? pic.twitter.com/LcbUJunevi

— अंकित जैन (@indiantweeter) November 20, 2016

 

5. And artful TV shows!

https://twitter.com/SamKhan999/status/800375957085421568

 

6. So brilliantly insightful!

. @subhashchandra Sir, forget Coldplay, your channel Zee news says even Foreplay doesnt matter, only SIZE https://t.co/5GVXqQLJy5 #Sanskaar

— Suryanarayan Ganesh (@gsurya) November 20, 2016

 

7. Ahem. At least run a spell check before accusing an entire generation of going to waste.

that's rabindra sir not rabinder!! #rabindranathtagore

— Santosh gupta (@Insert_Smiley) November 20, 2016

 

8. Seriously, bro!

Who's Rabinder? New Punjabi popstar?

— Somnath Sengupta (@baggiholic) November 20, 2016

 

9. You knew you had that coming!

everybody knows rabindra sangeet, there is no such thing as rabinder sangeet unless it's some b movie song on late night zee

— Suresh R (@iamabofh) November 20, 2016

 

10. A simple Google search would’ve worked.

https://twitter.com/_N33R4J_/status/800377553013784576

 

11. That seems like a fair plan.

promise to learn only if you promise to telecast it on your channel. Some relief from the usual stuff at least. 😂

— Liu Chuen Chen (@chuenchenliu) November 20, 2016

 

12. Making a good point there. Why is it one OR the other?

As a Bengali, I sing Rabindrasangeet and also listen to western music. People's brains are big enough to handle both, sir.

— S Roy Chowdhury (@SRoyChowdhury01) November 20, 2016

 

13. Mr Khatri at his hilarious best! 

https://twitter.com/one_by_two/status/800421958542204929

 

14. Yeah! Freedom of choice. Ever heard about that, Mr media baron?

https://twitter.com/Massapiece/status/800580499680817152

 

15. Well, at least someone is asking the most pressing question!

where was the wine?!! I didn't find any! Wth. @Samit did you know?

— Saanwari/साँवरी/Saav (@saanwari) November 20, 2016

I think that response should be lesson enough. I’m sure Mr Chandra will think twice, and run a spell check another dozen times before going off on a Twitter rant ever again!

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