Twitteratis troll Katrina Kaif over her Smita Patil award win

September 17, 2016 - 8:13 PM IST

'Haters are gonna hate' is probably an understatement over the recent uproar on Katrina Kaif winning the Smita Patil award for her contribution to Indian cinema. Known majorly for her girl-next-door roles, a recent jury announced that she has been selected for the prestigious Smita Patil award which represents acting and talent.

Twitteratis troll Katrina Kaif over her Smita Patil award win

What followed was twitteratis expressing their anger over the kind of insult being targeted at the late Smita Patil who is considered as one of the most iconic performers of Indian cinema. Netizens unleashed their fury over this selection on social media and Katrina Kaif was being trolled as twitteratis continued to share quirky and sarcastic comments over the same. Here's a collection of few tweets.

‏@SirJadejaaaa: Katrina Kaif To Be Awarded The Smita Patil Award For Contribution To Cinema. Only Acting She Ever Did Was Dating Salman To Enter Bollywood.

‏@jhunjhunwala: An award honors an idea. Giving Katrina the Smita Patil award is like giving creator of Food Panda app the Albert Einstein Medal in science. They are giving Katrina Kaif the Smita Patil Memorial award. Smita Patil must be turning over in her grave.

‏@thebobbydeoll: Katrina Kaif receiving Smita Patil Memorial Award is same as Sajid Khan getting an Oscar

‏@DOCTORATLARGE: Katrina Kaif getting the Smita Patil award is wonderful news. It has paved the way for Chetan Bhagat getting the Nobel Prize for Literature. While Katrina Kaif gets Smita Patil award, Vidya Balan gets Dengue. Both pieces of news are accurate reflections of the state of our country.

‏@adagio_aria: Meanwhile Katrina Kaif must be 'googling' who was Smita Patil for she doesn't even know a b s of acting

‏@MeenakshiMannSe: #KatrinaKaif to get Smita Patil memorial award isn't similar as #SaifAliKhan awarded by PadmaShri

‏@BeerOholic: When Kejriwal can win Magsaysay award for emergent leadership, why so much hue and cry over Katrina getting award for B'wood contribution?

‏@kappansky: Well, look at it this way: Smita Patil award mite spur Katrina 2 better acting. Same logic applied when Obama was awarded Nobel Peace Prize!

‏@NidhiChoksii: Katrina Kaif wins an award for her contribution in Bollywood. Please remind me again when that happened?

‏@traveler_town: If Katrina Kaif is getting a SmitaPatil Memorial Award, I better get a ParamVir Chakra for putting up with the non sense of this country

‏@Ganesh_205:What on earth has Katrina Kaif done that is being awarded with the SmitaPatil Award??? Smith Patio must be feeling a looser now

‏@kehke_lena: Katrina gets the Smita Patel award for her brilliant acting!It's like Sallu winning the Indian Grand Prix for his brilliant driving skills

‏@mathur_poet: Katrina Kaif to get SmitaPatil award for acting. Wtf! What next? Rahul Gandhi to get Nobel Peace and KRK to get an Oscar?