On Independence Day, several Bollywood movies took the opportunity to reveal new trailers and posters that had their actors wish their fans on the special day. One such movie was Paltan. This gesture was expected from the team, since it is a war drama and therefore rides high on patriotism. Paltan is directed by JP Dutta, known for making war-based films like Border and LOC - Kargil. The movie is based on the 1967 Nathu La and Cho La clashes along the Sikkim border after 1962 Indo-China War.
On August 15, the makers revealed a special poster of Paltan that had most of its male lead stars (Save for Jackie Shroff) shown saluting the national flag. So we had Arjun Rampal, Sonu Sood, Gurmeet Choudhary, Harshvardhan Rane, Luv Sinha and Siddhant Kapoor looking at the flag and saluting it. Or so it seems! For there was one man who was standing odd man out! Look closely!
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Only Sonu Sood seems to find the camera more fascinating than the flag it seems!
Some of the Twitter users were quick to compare the actor with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, whose love for the camera, has been the subject of many jokes on social media. Check out some of the tweets below -
Sonu Sood is playing Modiji?
Sonu Sood is playing Modiji? pic.twitter.com/ZzGzB1TGPX
— swrnbh (@Swarnabh) August 15, 2018
Big fan for sure!
Sonu Sood is Biggest fan of Narendra modi pic.twitter.com/4rcEwggcNF
— भाई साहब (@Bhai_Saaheb) August 15, 2018
Someone call the exorcist!
Jab Modi ji's aathma got into Sonu sood's body
#Paltan #HappyIndependenceDay2018
Jahan teri ye nazar meri jaan mujhe khabar hai. pic.twitter.com/Pc8z5L5v7s
— Akbar (Arab) Baig (@arabbaig) August 15, 2018
Offered without comments
All the actors r saluting and sonu sood looking at camera just like Modi does on all the important occasions
— सीमा (@sharma_suparna) August 15, 2018
In case you are not aware of the comparison, here are some of the old tweets, where PM Modi's love for the shutterbug has been chronicled!
It seems PM has kept his Security particularly to Remove the ones who come in between Modi & his First Love The Camera pic.twitter.com/jrPtrADsl2
— Aarti (@aartic02) December 21, 2017
Even the first daughter could not diminish Modi's love for camera pic.twitter.com/d6HHLCTR2M
— Savukku_Shankar (@savukku) November 28, 2017
Modi ji's love for camera #YogaDay pic.twitter.com/SJzQ9OOkSD
— vandana sharma (@IndiaTv24) June 21, 2016
Looks like Modiji found another big fan in a Bollywood star, after Kangana Ranaut. Or maybe they just share a common admiration of giving their good side to the camera!
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