Fantastic director and a social media moron: How Hansal Mehta lost a social media fight and suffered a massive meltdown

If the media believed that only Bollywood stars like Tapsee Pannu had the sole authority on dishing ‘befitting replies’, then surely they haven’t had a run-in with the common Indians. Hansal Mehta, an acclaimed Bollywood director with movies like Aligarh, Shahid, Citylights etc. under his belt was taken to the cleaners on Twitter by an ordinary Indian when the former tried to pit India and Pakistan in the Covid cases tally.

Hansal Mehta on Sunday posed a question asking if Pakistan was performing as bad as India in terms of the new coronavirus cases. To which a Twitter user named Dev Mehta replied, “I am willing to pay for first-class one way ticket is you’re moving there permanently.”

The director was quick to take the bait and replied that the netizen must send the ticket right away to him. Hansal Mehta even offered to share his bank details in case the user was willing to transfer the amount for the ticket.

While Hansal must have been feeling gung-ho at his moral internet victory, the netizen took his advice seriously and asked for the bank account details to be sent to him and also imposed the condition that if Hansal came from Pakistan — he will have to pay 10 times the ticket price to the netizen. He tweeted, “Please do, but if you come back you will have to pay me 10 times the ticket amount.”

To everyone’s surprise, Dev Mehta indeed booked a ticket for Hansal dating April 20 from Mumbai to Dubai and Dubai to Pakistan and silenced Hansal, who went incommunicado after the entire banter. The netizen shared the screenshot of the ticket on his handle and waited for Hansal’s reply.

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Meanwhile, Twitter had a field day taking apart the director after he was humiliated by the netizen. And true to the nature of a typical left-liberal comrade Hansal, Mehta resorted to censoring the content. He first made his account private, blocked Dev Mehta and later started claiming the moral high ground by terming the netizen as a troll. According him, “Our nation is ravaged by a deadly virus. Our healthcare system is collapsing. Our dead have no place to be cremated. What do people supposedly supporters/members of the ruling party do? Abuse. Troll. Get well soon dears. Take care. Look after yourselves and your loved ones.”

Hansal Mehta didn’t stop here and satiate his bruised ego, complaint-tweeted whilst tagging Sharjah as well as UAE police Headquarters to look into the man for allegedly issuing a fake ticket and “inciting hate and issuing threats against Muslims.” The reader has read it right, booking a ticket amounted to inciting hate and threat against Muslims in Mr Hansal Mehta’s secular book.

“Dear @ShjPolice @UAEPoliceHQ Am reporting this person with handle @Dev73513666 whose name is allegedly Dev Mehta. He has issued a fake @emirates ticket, is inciting hate and issuing threats against Muslims. He claims to be based in Sharjah. Please investigate.” tweeted an enraged Mehta.

While Hansal Mehta was running from pillar to post to virtually incarcerating the alleged ‘troll’, Dev Mehta simply put out a statement, calling the director for his intolerance and urged the Twitter users to not harass him.

“State of our so-called “Intellectuals of Indian society” They can go to any level and get anyone against them harmed or arrested. In any case, he would require proof of payments prove that he paid and I didn’t deliver. So, I’m fine. Let him be, don’t harass him anymore,” tweeted Dev Mehta.

Hansal Mehta might be a prolific filmmaker but truth be told, he is an incompetent nincompoop when it comes to social media platforms and an even more intellectually bankrupt individual when it comes to discussing politics and its related entities.