On Tuesday, the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests turned violent after locals in East Delhi's Seelampur and Zaffarabad reportedly pelted stones the police and vandalised at least three buses and set ablaze a police motorcycle along with other vehicles. The police retaliated with tear gas shelling.

The protests turning into violence were uncalled for and many objected to the same. Bollywood celebrities like Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana, Rajkummar Rao, Sidharth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra, Sonakshi Sinha, Vikrant Massey, among others, spoke back on the incident and urged people to maintain peace.

Anurag Kashyap, Vir Das, Richa Chadha, Pulkit Samrat, Nimrat Kaur, Ali Fazal, Konkona Sen Sharma, Dia Mirza and Manoj Bajpayee were also among some of those who took a strong stand on the matter. Birthday boy Riteish Deshmukh shared a message on Twitter, while Mohammed Zeeshan Ayub held a press conference to speak on the matter. A Twitter user by the name of Prashant Kumar shared a video from the press conference.

While these Bollywood celebrities have spoken up on the matter, Twitterati questioned the silence of Bollywood stars like the Khans aka Shah Rukh, Salman and Aamir Khan. They also asked why Amitabh Bachchan and Deepika Padukone kept mum on the matter.