Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut on Tuesday reacted to a Twitter video that claimed Dharma Productions, the production house of Karan Johar, has allegedly littered a village in Goa with biomedical waste after wrapping up a shoot featuring Deepika Padukone. In the clips and photos that went viral, heaps of biomedical waste including PPE kits, masks, sanitary napkins etc, as well as unsegregated garbage and tons of plastic waste, including cutlery, were seen dumped in the area.
Taking to her Twitter, the Queen actress wrote, Movie industry is not a virus just for the moral fibre n culture of this nation but it has become very destructive and harmful for the environment also, @PrakashJavdekar ji @moefcc see this disgusting, filthy, irresponsible behaviour by so called big production houses, pls help," tweeted Kangana from her verified account tagging Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the official Twitter handle of the ministry. Kangana's tweet came in reaction to a tweet by a user who shared screenshot of a news headline that claims Johar's Dharma Productions has allegedly littered a Goan village named Nerul with garbage after wrapping up shooting for an untitled film featuring Deepika Padukone.
The user also shared a video of garbage and wrote: "Next Time Karan Johar & Deepika Padukone pretends to care about the planet , remember that they threw Biomedical waste, including PPEs from health centers & govt hospitals on roadside in Goa. For this, an example should be made out of them. Heavy Fine and Public Shaming needed." As per an IANS report, the waste was dumped at Nerul, a village 10km from Goan capital Panaji. Lokhancho Ekvott Goa, a group working for Goa’s environmental health has demanded an apology from Karan and threatened to ‘courier’ the dumped waste back to his office in Mumbai. Health minister of Goa, Vishwajit Rane is quoted as saying in the report, “It is not right to dump waste in the open. When permission was given for the film shoot, conditions ought to have been added in guidelines that the entity will dispose of the waste,” Rane said. Karan or Dharma Productions have not reacted to the controversy.