The amazing humanitarian work that Sonu Sood has been doing for the past year needs no introduction. It is because of him that several Indian citizens have received oxygen support, necessary Covid-19 medication, and hospital beds.
Honouring the noble work that he has been doing, in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district, a life-sized photo of the actor was showered with milk. In a video that has gone viral online, two men can be seen showering the milk on the garlanded picture of the actor.
In Srikalahasti of Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district, #SonuSood's life size photo was showered with milk. The event was headed by Puli Srikanth, who tried to convey to everyone that they should take Sonu Sood as an inspiration and help others, through this program. pic.twitter.com/HOShuG0fes
— Prudhvi (@PrudhviTweetz) May 20, 2021
Sonu Sood shared the video on Twitter and wrote that he was “humbled”.
Humbled 🙏🙏 https://t.co/aQPOskdHgz
— sonu sood (@SonuSood) May 20, 2021
While the intention of the people was to praise the actor for his humane deeds, the video didn’t go down well with many online. Some people were left disappointed by the large amount of milk that was wasted in the process, especially when millions of citizens go hungry every day due to the pandemic. They even suggested the milk be distributed amongst the poor instead of wasting it.
Humbled toh theek hai Sir but mana karo unhe. Wasting milk over this is not good
— Dhruv Rathee 🇮🇳 (@dhruv_rathee) May 20, 2021
दूध गरीब के बच्चों या अनाथालय में बटवाया होता तो बेहतर होता 🙏।
— Alka Lamba (@LambaAlka) May 20, 2021
Sir pls stop this. No doubt you are an icon in these trying times but what this people are doing is only to grab attention. Ask them to use this same milk for feeding poor who have nothing. Please ask to not waste milk. In your name they can feed underprivileged. #COVID19 🙏🏻🙏🏻
— Mehul Darooka (@mehuldarooka) May 20, 2021
Showing respect is appreciatable to this honourable man but this is a waste, because he is a one-man army who helped Indians, so if people really want to follow his path then they should follow his intention too, rather than waste food they should provide food to the needy people
— ritika roy (@ritikar53471902) May 20, 2021
U r a life saver to many Indians in distress and u shud be praised for that. But wasting so much milk is not acceptable. If they want to honour u, y not provide the same milk to the kids staying hungry?
— $|_|)|-|! (@Sudhi191919) May 20, 2021
am a big big fan of your humanitarian efforts- but would have appreciated if instead of just “humbled” you’d have tweeted to stop this idolatory & wastage of milk! the former has what has led us to current state, latter contributes to malnutrition in kids!
again- just a fan🙏🙏— adarsh mishra (@mishradarsh) May 20, 2021
You should have asked them not to do this as image worship has been the biggest bane of our guys and we are already paying for it. The milk should be fed to hungry and underfed….I was expecting this response from u
— Sachit (@Sachit64357342) May 20, 2021
According to a recent report by Business Standard, 230 million Indians have been pushed into poverty due to the Covid-19 economic crisis. This is the time we should come together to provide the needy with food and necessary resources, instead of wasting them. Don’t you think?