Rishi Kapoor: Here’s why you are seeing a lot of him on Twitter lately

Barring a few, almost every mainstream actor has chosen to share their life via social media networks. However, one actor who has been making news ever since he actively joined Twitter is none other than Rishi Kapoor, who tweets under the handle @chintskap, which we guess stands for Chintu Kapoor; Chintu being Rishi’s nickname.

Starting off in January 2010 when joining Twitter was a fad, Kapoor senior (or Junior, maybe) underwent a deep slumber, only to wake up and come back in February this year.

Describing himself as a hyphen between being the son of a famous father and the father of a famous son, he nails in being crisp and funny in his Twitter bio, just what the social network demands off its users.

Be it wondering about why actors wear sunglasses even in night parties or asking tweeples their thoughts behind actors putting their hands in pockets while being interviewed, Rishi Kapoor has been very vocal and very entertaining for his followers. However, that is not what he is making the news for.

Known to be a man of a few words, Rishi Kapoor is showing a completely different side of himself in his tweets, a side we never even knew he had. The ‘clean’ actor who has never been a part of any controversy in his career spanning 4 decades, suddenly has an opinion on anything and everything, and is not shying away from telling his opinions to the world. It started when he got angry at the ban Maharashtra government had put on beef, and earned the wrath of people who thought that he was promoting cow slaughter. Not someone to easily take a back seat,

Kapoor was quick in clarifying himself in a fierce tone and blocking those who abused him in public. He also went on to question the government about not banning tobacco and tobacco products.

As is common in the twitter world, tweeples have often misunderstood Rishi, forcing him to clarify the real meaning behind his tweets in a spur of moments, being one of the very few celebrities who actually read the twitter replies.

The one incident that probably hurt Rishi the most was when he criticised abusing women and called women ‘kamzor’, which led people to criticise him for calling women weak. Hurt by the misunderstanding, Rishi went ahead and tweeted about the films he has done on topics of women empowerment and even decided to leave Twitter, though he didn’t.

Next time he came under the scanner was when he joked about the possible warning to be printed on a condom packet, stating that this was something that India needs. Again, he asked his followers to get a life and learn to take things in a funny manner.

When one time he decided to take a break from Twitter after all the negativity and grief it had given to him, director Sajid Khan convinced him to not leave Twitter, having said so in a tweet himself.

To all the fans of rishi kapoor(incldg me)...good news...just had a long chat with him..he is not quitting twitter. https://t.co/FXm99NZKLW

— Sajid Khan (@SimplySajidK) May 8, 2015

Well, after that quick break, the latest Rishi Kapoor has been doing is sharing posters of some of his films and criticising himself for doing them. These include movies like Sheshnaag, Zehreela Insaan, and Sherdil, some of which not many of us have heard about.

So here is to the man who knows the topics on which he has to speak, but gets scanned for the words he chooses to speak his mind. Well done Rishi ji, if only a few more actors had your guts.

Picture by Indiatimes