Swara Bhasker, one of the most outspoken Bollywood celebrities today, is celebrating her 34th birthday today. She has been a part of several Bollywood hits, including Veere Di Wedding, Raanjhanaa, Prem Ratan Dhan Payo and Tanu Weds Manu Returns but remains in the headlines for her statements more than her acting.

The actor is highly active on social media and constantly voices her opinion on several socio-political issue of the country. She receives a lot of trolling and criticism on social media for being outspoken about many socio-political topics and conflicts.

Here are some of the major controversies she has been a part of:

Views on Pakistan

During her film Veere Di Wedding promotions, Swara Bhaskar had slammed Pakistan calling it a failing nation. As soon as her statement went viral on social media, she had received wrath from both sides of the border.

Padmaavat open letter

Swara Bhaskar wrote an open letter to Sanjay Leela Bhansali who directed Deepika Padukone starrer Padmaavat. In her letter, the actor criticised Bhansali for glorifying Jauhar saying that she felt reduced to a vagina at the end of the film. Her letter invited tons of reactions with many people writing that there was no need of creating a controversy here.

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Paresh Rawal Controversy

The Veere Di Wedding actor had slammed Bollywood actor Paresh Rawal over his tweets on author Arundhati Roy. He had tweeted that Roy should suffer the same fate as one stone pelter did (tied to a jeep by an army man). She was again on the trolls receiving end and was again called out anti-national.

Kangana Ranaut and Swara’s Twitter war

A war of words had been started between the Queen actor Kangana Ranaut and Veere Di Wedding actor Swara Bhaskar on the issue of farmers protest and it was not the first time between them. In an exclusive interview Kangana Ranaut said that the flag-bearers of nepotism will ensure that needy outsiders like Taapsee Pannu and Swara Bhasker will challenge her views after the interview. Later, both the actors reacted to the statement which incited a response from Kangana’s team and ended up becoming a Twitter war.

Swara Bhaskar’s statement on Hijab controversy

Speaking on the Hijab, Swara Bhaskar had compared the controversy with the Draupadi rip-off during the Dwapar era. She tweeted that Draupadi’s clothes were forcibly removed in the Mahabharata and the responsible, powerful, law makers were sitting in the assembly kept watching. After this tweet, she had to be trolled a lot.

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