Nawazzudin Siddiqui and Om Puri

With Oscars 2017 being the top trend yesterday, many Bollywood celebrities took to Twitter to share their views about the same. But one person to make an impactful tweet was Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

So Oscars paid homage to all the celebrities who are no more with us including Late Bollywood actor Om Puri. This did make everyone proud of the late actor and social media went abuzz with the same. Nawazuddin shared a strong message that it is shameful to know that the people of his own country did not pay any respect to him, when the International cinema is felicitating his work.

Through his tweet he said that it is shameful to know that nobody talked about Om Puri’s contribution to Indian cinema at Bollywood award functions.

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Here’s what he tweeted,

On January 6, 2017, the news of Om Puri’s death had made it to the headlines. It came as a shocker to all to know that such a prolific actor is no more with us. He lost his life to a major cardiac arrest. (ALSO READ: RECAP: The most EXPLOSIVE interviews of Om Puri that prove he was outright straightforward)