‘We can’t show concern for migrants by sitting in AC and tweeting’, says Sonu Sood

TIL Desk Bollywood/ “Go tell the migrant workers not to worry because Sonu Sood is there for them… Maybe the person acts in negative roles in cinemas but this man is a true ‘nayok’ (hero) in the real world,” gushes a Facebook post written in Bangla by a student from Kolkata.

Over the last couple of months, headlines like ‘Sonu Sood offers his Juhu hotel for healthcare workers’, ‘Sonu Sood distributes food among the underprivileged’, ‘Sonu Sood to feed over 25,000 migrants during Ramzan’ have been grabbing our attention.

Recently, the actor organised buses to transport stranded migrant labourers to their hometowns, after obtaining permissions from the Maharashtra and Karnataka governments. He even went to the bus terminus to oversee their journey.

“I feel it is my duty to help the migrants, the heartbeats of our country. We have seen migrants walking on the highways with their families and kids. We just can’t sit in the AC and tweet and show our concern till we don’t go on the roads, till we don’t become one of them.