B-wood celebs urge people to stay at home, support 'Janta Curfew'

Bollywood celebs including Riteish Deshmukh, Kartik Aaryan, Alia Bhatt, Parineeti Chopra, Aditi Rao Hydari among others took to social media urging people to stay at home and support 'Janta Curfew'.

Mumbai: As the nationwide 'Janta Curfew' began in India at 7 in the morning, several Bollywood celebrities took to social media urging people to stay at home and follow the precautionary measure called-for by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Actor Riteish Deshmukh started the day by dropping a quick tweet wishing Twitter a "Good morning" and asking the users to "Stay Home, Stay healthy, Stay safe."

Deshmukh completed the tweet with hashtags of 'Janta curfew' and 'India fight corona'.

Actor Kartik Aaryan who recently drew appreciation for his 'Corona stop karo na' monlogue also tweeted, "Lets Support #JantaCurfew Today !!"

Making her Instafam go 'awww,' actor Alia Bhatt shared a selfie from her house, wearing a cute panda-print night suit and asked people to stay safe. "Stay home & ... take selfies cause a little vanity never hurt nobody," Bhatt wrote in the caption.

Actor Parineeti Chopra also took to Instagram and shared a picture of the balcony of her Mumbai's Khar situated house. "Home, Hope everyone is keeping themselves safe and healthy ... #Peace #Quiet #StayAtHome," Chopra wrote in the caption.

Actor Aditi Rao Hydari also urged people to 'heal the world' by staying at home and posted her selfie slaying the no make-up look.

"#HealTheWorld There is always a silver lining... always. The world is healing. We're all closer despite the distance... In kindness, in care, in responsibility, our priorities and most importantly in our love," the 'Wazir' actor captioned her post.

Veteran director Mahesh Bhatt shared a picture of a man standing alone in a deserted lane and wrote, "Only echoes answer me."

Singer Armaan Malik also urged people to stay home and tweeted, "STAY HOME & STAY SAFE. PLEASE IT'S A SINCERE REQUEST #IndiaFightsCorona."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged people to be a part of the 'Janta curfew' today and said that it will add tremendous strength to the fight against COVID-19 menace.

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So far, there have been 315 positive cases of coronavirus in the country.

From ANI inputs.