''Chhapaak'' trends on Twitter - and no its screen villain is neither ''Nadeem'' nor ''Rajesh'' His Name is Bashir

New Delhi, Jan 8 (PTI) each day after Deepika Padukone visited the JNU campus to precise solidarity with students who had been attacked, her film "Chhapaak" made another splash on Wednesday over the name of its antagonist.

While Deepika was the main target of the many a discussion on social media and beyond for exposure at a public meeting within the university, the film, supported the lifetime of acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal, was also making news for quite one more reason .

In what could rather be a storm during a ''Twitter cup'', "Nadeem Khan" and "Rajesh" began trending on the micro blogging site after a article claimed the name of the antagonist had been changed. By 4 pm, ''Nadeem Khan'' clocked on the brink of 60,000 tweets and ''Rajesh'' close behind with 50,000.

In 2005, Laxmi was disfigured for all times when a person called Nadeem Khan and three others allegedly hurled acid at her in Delhi''s upscale Khan Market.

In the film supported her life, the narrative remains an equivalent but the names are changed. So, Laxmi is ''Malti'' Agarwal and Nadeem becomes ''Babboo'' aka ''Bashir Khan''.

On Wednesday, Swarajya magazine wrote a piece of writing headlined, "The Ways Of Bollywood: In Deepika Padukone-Starer Chhapaak, Acid Attacker Naeem Khan Becomes ‘Rajesh’."

"As a part of a backlash against Padukone''s JNU ''meet and greet'', social media users researched the names of the characters involved within the movie Chhapaak and conspicuously found the name of main perpetrator Naeem Khan absent," the article alleged.

But within the Meghna Gulzar directed film, there's no mention of any Nadeem or Naeem Khan. Moreover, Rajesh is that the name of Malti''s boyfriend.

Minister of State for Environment, Forest and global climate change Babul Supriyo jumped into the controversy, saying it had been another example of "absolute hypocrisy".

"...When you say all characters are fictitious and don''t have any resemblance with living beings and every one of that, this is often absolute hypocrisy. once you change the name which also changes the faith , it's been done very deliberately," Supriyo told a channel when asked to discuss the controversy.

South Delhi BJP MP Ramesh Biduri also involved a boycott of the movie.

With Deepika grabbing attention by getting to JNU, many appreciated her ''silent solidarity'' but others criticised her for "supporting the Leftists" and said it had been a promotional stunt before the discharge .