Twinkle Khanna backs Rhea in her column

Many celebs have slammed the treatment meted out to actor Rhea Chakraborty, Twinkle Khanna being the latest to join the bandwagon. The author compared the trial by media to a magic show, where young girls are 'cut into halves before a live audience of millions'.

Mumbai: Twinkle Khanna is the latest celebrity to have spoken up in support of Rhea Chakraborty, slamming the criticism and media trials the latter has been subject to has been subjected to over the last two months.

In her latest weekly column for a newspaper, Twinkle used the allegory of magicians and how they ‘cut young girls in halves’ for the entertainment of the masses.

Using PC Sorcar's magic as a metaphor, Twinkle compared the current scenario to the legendary magician's famous act of slicing a woman into halves on stage. He is not the only Indian to have performed this sleight of hand. It took sixty-odd years but we are now seeing a resurgence of illusionists holding forth from studios, on panel discussions and even streaming videos from their homes. For the last few months, we have been watching these performances every day," the Mela actor wrote in her blog.

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"They took a young woman and cut her in half. They sliced through her T-shirt, one that stated ‘Roses are red, violets are blue, let’s smash the patriarchy, me and you’, the blade going into her flesh, her very life draining away before a live audience of millions," she wrote in her column.

She went on to add: "What do these magicians tell themselves when the camera is switched off I wonder? Do they justify it as mere collateral damage — one life in exchange for entertaining and distracting 1.3 billion for months."

Other celebs who have been slammed the treatment meted out to Rhea include Shibani Dandekar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Shweta Bachchan Nanda, Sonam Kapoor, and Taapsee Pannu.