Actress Neetu Chandra has penned an open letter to director Abhishek Chaubey and actress Alia Bhatt for the way people of Bihar have been portrayed in their upcoming film Udta Punjab. In the letter, Neetu wrote: “It’s disturbing to see the way Biharis have been portrayed in Hindi cinema over the last few years, the recent example being Alia Bhatt’s character from Udta Punjab and from whatever one understands from the promo of the film, director Abhishek Chaubey is guilty of strengthening the stereotype of Biharis by creating Bhatt’s character the way it is, in Udta Punjab.” Alia plays a Bihari migrant in Udta Punjab, which tackles the drug menace in Punjab.
