Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor recently attended the King Charles III’s coronation concert held on May 7 at the Windsor Castle in London. It was her first royal event which saw many big names gracing the occasion.
Kapoor, who was wearing a white floral gown and silver hued jewellery at the coronation concert, is now being trolled by netizens for her speech at the concert. The speech, the videos of which have gone viral on social media, has been deemed ’embarrassing’ by several netizens.
In the one minute clip, Kapoor started off her piece with ‘Namaste’. The Veere Di Wedding actress also went on to introduce several choir performances like The Bahamas Youth Choir, choir from Risotto and Brunei, Steve Windwood and Virtual Commonwealth Choir.
“Our Commonwealth is a union. Together we are one third of the world’s people, one third of the world’s ocean. One quarter of the world’s land. Each of our countries is unique. Each of our people is special. But we choose to stand as one. Learning from our history, blessed by our diversity, driven by our values and determined to build a more peaceful, sustainable and prosperous future for everyone, where every voice is heard. Without further ado, here’s welcoming the incredible voices from across the Commonwealth", said the 37-year-old actor in her spoken word piece.
One of the netizens was of the opinion that Sonam’s speech sounded like that of a five-year-old. She tweeted, "sonam kapoor's spoken word coronation performance is exactly what we hoped it to be, and whyyy is she talking like that as if it’s a 5th grade elocution contest."
Another wrote, “This is embarrassing. As if going to the event itself wasn’t embarrassing enough. It’s giving 5th std English elocution competition. Maybe she did it on purpose, as revenge."
Yet another one commented, “Truly a global embarrassment." Someone else said, “This is giving me second hand embarrassment. Can she not enjoy her retirement far away from the cameras?"
Sonam Kapoor’s mother Sunita Kapoor also shared the clip on her Instagram handle. She wrote in the caption, “So proud! Such an honour!" Sonam was quick to respond by commenting, “Love you (with red heart emojis)".
Sunita Kapoor reciprocated it with ‘Love you’. Sonam’s cousin and actor Arjun Kapoor reacted with heart and clap emoji while her uncle Sanjay Kapoor wrote, “Great honour!"
On the work front, she will next be seen in Shome Makhija’s directorial Blind, which also stars Purab Kohli, Vinay Pathak, and Lillete Dubey.