Actress Mrunal Thakur has responded to a social media user who edited her in her Diwali post. In the edited image, the man is seen lighting a cracker with Mrunal, with his arm wrapped around the Hi Nanna star.

The man shared the photo on Instagram with the caption, “Diwali photo editing. Bollywood actress photoshoot… (sic).”

Mrinal expressed his disapproval in the comments, saying, “Brother, why are you giving yourself false consolation? Do you think what you are doing is cool? No!” (Why are you giving yourself false reassurance? Do you really think what you are doing is good? No, it’s not!)

Earlier, Mrinal had condemned the creation of deepfake videos of female celebrities.

In response to Rashmika Mandanna’s deepfake video, he wrote on Instagram, “People who resort to such things should be ashamed; it shows that such people have no conscience left. Thank you for speaking up and addressing this issue.” , @rashmika_mandanna Many of us have chosen to remain silent about it, every day, videos of female actors being molested as inappropriate body parts come out, but we, as a community, live in the ‘headlines’. Where are the actresses going? After all, we are all human beings. Why are we not talking about it?

Mrunal, who was last seen in Telugu drama The Family Star, has Son of Sardaar 2 in the pipeline.