Actress and celebrity designer Masaba Gupta has criticised former Pakistan cricketer Ramiz Raja for laughing at a racist joke directed towards her mother Neena Gupta and father Vivian Richards.
"Dear Ramiz Raja (sir) grace is a quality few have. My father, mother, and I have it in spades. You have none. Sickening to see you laugh on national TV in Pakistan at something the world stopped laughing at about 30 years back. Step into the future. All 3 of us are here with our chin up. #ramizraja," Masaba Gupta wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
.Gupta slammed said that Ramiz Raja does not have any grace while Vivian Richards, Neena Gupta and herself have it in spades.
A clip went viral on social media in which Ramiz Raja was seen laughing at a racist joke pointing at Vivian Richards, in which a comedian actor cracked a joke of Vivian's skin colour.
One of the host said: "I do watch cricket matches and my heart broke when Vivian Richards went into a relationship with Neena Gupta. I wrote a couplet then. ‘Jo ladkiyan khud ko kehti hain malika-e-aliya, Unko fir milta hai Mr Kaliya.'”
Ramiz Raja was then spotted laughing. The laughter disappointed the Gupta Masaba.
The controversy came after former Pakistan all-rounder Abdul Razzaq faced fierce backlash from across the border for passing ‘misogynistic’ remarks against actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Razzq later apologised for his remark.
