Priyanka Chopra's Quantico will go off air after the current season. But if we look at the Indian Twitter, it won't fade before making some or the other controversy.
Looks like Twitterati took offence when the latest episode of the American television series showed a plotline in which Indian nationalists are trying to blow up New York's Manhattan in a nuclear attack to frame Pakistan.
The storyline has never been a great strength of Quantico. They tried the time-jump technique in the first season to show how Alex Parrish, the character Priyanka Chopra plays, became an FBI agent. The novelty of Bollywood actress being lead in an American show covered up the lack of strength in the story.
The second season was downhill hence the shorter version of the third season and eventual wrap-up. Quantico's ratings were on a downward curve, but it was Indian audience that continued to support PeeCee's show.
But with this latest episode, she seems to have irked Indian tweeters and they are quite vocal about it, even the show is fictional.
What the hell was this episode of #Quantico .. they tried to show ‘Indian nationalists’ (their term) trying to blow up Manhattan to frame Pakistan.. I don’t even know what sort of ridiculous narrative was this episode trying to set.. nonsensical stuff..
— Aadit Kapadia (@ask0704) June 3, 2018
Latest episode of Quantico is about Hindu men with Rudrakshas who are identified as Indian nationalists with knowledge of Indian government planning a Nuclear attack and blaming Pakistan and the Great priyanka chopra with FBI team stops it
Mainstreaming fake narrative
— யோகம்=சுà®´ிà®®ுனை (@duvijan) June 2, 2018
What kind of stupid ass episode is this?? Indian nationals trying to frame Pakistan #Quantico pic.twitter.com/o097ecDETF
— Dawn Marissa (@DawnMarissa1) June 4, 2018
This cat of argument also dragged in Shah Rukh Khan's movie Main Hoon Na, that showed Suneil Shetty as Indian Nationalist terrorist.
I know. The "Indian nationalist" terrorist theme first appeared in Main Hoon Na where Pak was shown to be peace loving unlike India! Glad I never watched Quantico
— अतुल (@amz360) June 4, 2018
There were others who said that one needs to understand the fiction part of the story in Quantico.
For 3 seasons Priyanka and Quantico have been hyping India. She’s the Hindu/Indian hero of the show for 3 years but one episode the Indian is the villain y’all freak out? How stupid! They’ve been showing India as good this whole time, one episode and all you nationalist lose it
— Congrats Dr. Priyanka Chopra (@Nitu_23) June 4, 2018
The Twitter outrage is not something Priyanka Chopra has not seen before.
She was targeted for wearing a dress when she met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Her visit to Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh as UN ambassador was trolled too.
It remains to be seen how and if Priyanka Chopra will react to this outrage.
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