On Saturday, in a dreadful incident Stage, One of the iconic RK Studios in Chembur caught fire and left Kapoor family in sorrow. The famous iconic Mera Naam Joker mask wore by Raj Kapoor and other costumes worn by all RK banner heroines were lost in that fire.
Rishi Kapoor was in remorse and he put across his sadness using his twitter handles.
Sad A major fire broke out at RK StudiosWe have lost the iconic Stage 1 Thankfully no casualties nor injuries. All your concerns appreciated
— Rishi Kapoor (@chintskap) September 16, 2017
A Studio can be built again but the loss of the irreplaceable memorabilia and costumes of all RK Films,is tragic for all. Fire took it away
— Rishi Kapoor (@chintskap) September 16, 2017
Rishi Kapoor was hardly managing to overcome this incident as the loss Kapoor’s generations worth of memorabilia wrenched his heart. Manjul Toons, a cartoonist managed to wake the rage of King of Twitter controversies. He published a cartoon about the incident and suddenly all hell break loose.
One of the most distasteful & reprehensible cartoons I've seen in ages. @chintskap pic.twitter.com/3FQsvvJig3
— Rajiv Vijayakar (@rajivvijayakar) September 18, 2017
A Twitter user brought the cartoon to Rishi Kapoor’s attention. The picture showed Raj Kapoor in heaven looking down on the fire that burnt RK Studios and referred to his debut film ‘Aag’. Manjul Toons managed to make a connection between Raj Kapoor’s ‘Aag’ and the incident of fire. Rishi lost his cool and took offense.
This is bad. We take objection to this kind of depraved sick humour. https://t.co/oNNhrZe7Ng
— Rishi Kapoor (@chintskap) September 18, 2017
He called it sick and humor and as soon as he tweeted his stance regarding the cartoon Twitterati followed and flooded Twitter with all sorts of reactions.
1. Sick Again!
Rishi Ji .. They r all mentally sick .. Pls ignore..
— Rakesh Chaudhary (@rkcindia1) September 18, 2017
2. Supporting The Kapoors!
https://twitter.com/SONIYALUVSU/status/909746654084923392
3. Jealous Much?
Jo jalte hai woh he aise bakwas kaam karte hai 👊👊 ☆☆☆ Raj Kapoor☆☆☆ sir love u ❤❤❤❤ pic.twitter.com/C4dTibfR4s
— @SANJEEDA ↩ (@BalochSanjeeda) September 18, 2017
4. Whoa! That’s Some Threat!
I support u sir…. Address nikalun kya iska… Let's go satyagraha on him
— Vivek Kumar singh (@bahut_pareshan) September 18, 2017
5. Sadistic Artist Or Just A Victim Of The Situation?
It's not even humorous. Shades of sadistic pleasure.
— Gagan Kumar (@gkofkrishnomics) September 18, 2017
6. All Blames!
Seems @MANJULtoons Sir is losing his sense of Humor !
— mamta Nigam !!! (@mamtan14) September 18, 2017
7. This One Seem A Personal Hater!
Manjula has always had a sick sense of humour. His drawing r sadistic & normally make fun of unfortunate incidents..artistic freedom my ass
— Nitin Bhalla (@nitinbhalla) September 19, 2017
8. More Support!
Really in bad taste. I hope people understand sensitivities. We are with you in this and pls let us know if we could do anything in anyway
— N (@itssotweet) September 19, 2017
9. Oh No! She Didn’t Said That Out Here.. She Did!
https://twitter.com/SONIYALUVSU/status/909746873786707969
10. Really!
There is no legal provision against sick mind. Unfortunately @MANJULtoons is losing it in a bad way
— learner (@lifeteaches80) September 18, 2017
A lot of Twitterati supported Rishi Kapoor but there were some who wanted to take it in a lighter way and understand the intentions of the cartoonist. They wanted Rishi to understand the hidden motivation in the cartoon.
1. Ummm! Probably.
Take it easy sir. May this man's words come true. And "Kapoor and Sons" really do exponentially well from here on!
— Rove (@rove_drives) September 18, 2017
2. Hidden Messages!
Learn to take the joke. The cartoonist is actually telling you that something good is gonna come out of this.
— navtez singh (@navtez) September 18, 2017
3. Positive Sight!
https://twitter.com/RohitYrahduahc/status/909772483397509120
The incident of the fire in RK Studios is certainly devastating. Probably that’s why the humor put up by the cartoonist was way too tickling for the family.
19 September 2017
Avni S. Singh