Alia Bhatt has unknowingly become meme fodder once again after she wished the Indian contingent at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics luck… with a picture from the 2012 London Olympics.
The Gangubai Kathiawadi star took to her Instagram Stories on the eve of the Olympics 2020 to share a picture of the Indian contingent from the 2012 London Olympics, with the #Tokyo2021 hashtag.
She also captioned the picture, “Best of luck to the Indian contingent…” The picture she posted interestingly also features India’s 2012 Olympic flag-bearer, wrestler Sushil Kumar, who is currently in jail for murder charges, and Madhura Honey, a woman who had crashed the Indian contingent and walked alongside them.
The faux pas was immediately caught by netizens, who took to Twitter to relentlessly troll Alia for being ‘dumb’.
Are bhaii ..koi @aliaa08 ko rok lo. 2012 ke Olympic ka pic share kr rhi. 😭 pic.twitter.com/U2taag18Ra
— Vaibhav (@msdian_MS07) July 24, 2021
“Leave everything and check Alia Bhatt’s Insta story… she’s so dumb,” tweeted one user, gaining close to 3.5 likes on his tweet, which was then reshared on the microblogging app.
Leave everything and check Alia Bhatt’s Insta story.. she’s so dumb 😭😭
— maithun (@Being_Humor) July 24, 2021
The irony of the mess-up was also not lost on some, who pointed out that she probably confused ‘2021’ with ‘2012’. It’s also pertinent to mention that the Olympic games are being addressed by their originally scheduled year, 2020.
“Used 2012 pic and wrote #Tokyo2021 (in fact it’s 2020),” cleared one user.
https://twitter.com/_ajar_amar/status/1418968057876189191
Yet another user called Alia a ‘Bombay blonde’ for the mix-up. “This guy Sushil Kumar is in jail on murder charges, Bombay blonde,” they said.
This guy Sushil Kumar is in jail on muπder charges, Bombay blonde @aliaa08! 🤦♂️😁😁 pic.twitter.com/tkVMG766sN
— Neta Ji (@AapGhumaKeLeL0) July 24, 2021
One user pulled a Bollywood joke at the expense of the Bollywood sweetheart saying, “Mary Kom won her first match! Will Alia Bhatt will congratulate her by posting the picture of PRIYANKA CHOPRA?”
Chopra portrayed Kom in a 2014 biopic titled Mary Kom.
https://twitter.com/whogaurav12/status/1419210928772444165
One user hilariously tweeted, “While we are living in 2021, Tokyo Olympics is living in 2020, while Alia Bhatt is living in 2012.”
While we are living in 2021, Tokyo olympics is living in 2020, while Alia Bhatt is living in 2012 pic.twitter.com/nlMayvmMUy
— Faad Dunga BC (@naalaYUCK) July 24, 2021
Japan’s global superstar Naomi Osaka on Friday lit the Olympic cauldron to mark the start of Tokyo 2020, in an opening ceremony shorn of glitz and overshadowed by a pandemic but defined by hope, tradition and gestures of diversity.
Postponed by a year due to the coronavirus, the Games are being held without spectators in a city under a COVID-induced state of emergency, as many other parts of the globe also still struggle with a resurgence of cases.
