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'If she was or is under pressure, then I feel sad for her', Raveena Tandon on Zaira Wasim's decision to quit Bollywood

Raveena Tandon took to her Twitter page and wrote about Zaira Wasim's announcement of quitting films. Check out her tweets.

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After Zaira Wasim announced that she is disassociating herself from films, it created an uproar on social media pages. Many celebrities supported her decision, while there were a few who called her views 'regressive'. Raveena Tandon was one of the celebrities who tweeted about Zaira's decision. She wrote, "Doesn’t matter if two film olds are ungrateful to the industry that has given them all. Just wish they’d exit gracefully and keep their regressive views to themselves."

Now, reports started making the rounds that Zaira was forced to quit the industry. After reading it, Raveena tweeted, "If this is true and the reason for her to quit, if she was or is under pressure, then I do feel sad for the girl. Was she forced into writing the long statement by radicals out of fear? She was a role model to so many youngsters with dreams and inspirations that they could achieve."

She also wrote, "I wish her luck and strength after seeing this, I now regret my first immediate tweet after reading her statement. Maybe she was forced to write what was unacceptable to people like me who love films, cinema, the industry, that I was born into. Deleting the tweet that now sounds harsh."

Check it out below:

While speaking to DNA over the phone, Raveena said that she stands by and supports the industry. If she (Zaira) wants to exit, she can exit, by all means, it's her personal choice. But to say that industry is a bad place and kill it for all the others who are already in the industry and all those girls who are aspiring to be young actors, it's like almost taking away all those opportunities from them because coming from some patriarchal societies, people will use her as an example.

Raveena also added that she (Zaira) should have been a role model for all the girls who want to achieve something because of the way she has achieved against all odds. Now, she has almost killed it for them saying what she did was wrong.

Raveena further clarified that there was one tweet in which she said it was very regressive which was being misunderstood as people thought she was talking about the religion. The actress cleared the air saying, "Demeaning the industry is an aggressive thing to say. I left so many movies, I was being pressurised on. I have left movies where I was not comfortable either kissing or I was not comfortable wearing a swimsuit. I've made it on my terms. If women are strong they can do it and that's what we need to give out to women who are waiting to come out and we have to encourage women to come out of their homes and stand on their feet."

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