New Delhi

Bollywood star Amir Khan is facing huge criticism in Ladakh for practising against the environmental protection that had had so vocally advocated on his famous television show Satyamev Jayate.

A village in Ladakh, Wakha, where the shooting for his upcoming movie Lal Singh Chadha, a remake of Hollywood classic Forest Gump is going on has been reportedly littered with garbage and plastic leftoverss.

A picture of this environmental vandalism was posted on Twitter by a well known social and cultural activist from the region Jigmet Ladakhi. The vido showed the vast expanse of the barren land littered with plastic and bottles.

Jigmet took to Twitter to speak against Amir Khan for not practising what he preached:

This is the gift Bollywood star Amir Khan's upcoming movie Lal Singh Chada has left for the villagers of Wakha in Ladakh.
Amir Khan himself talks big about environmental cleanliness at Satyamev Jayate but this is what happens when it comes to himself. pic.twitter.com/exCE3bGHyB

— Jigmat Ladakhi 🇮🇳 (@nontsay) July 8, 2021

His video elicited a response from the film team. A Twitter handle by the name of the movie claimed the shooting was going on till the end of August and they were not yet done o had not left the venue of the shooting. The handle claimed they would clean up before winding up the shooting.

For your information, the shooting schedule there is still going on and they haven't left the place yet. Get your facts right before you blabber.

— 𝓛𝓪𝓪𝓵 𝓢𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓱 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓭𝓭𝓱𝓪 (@samidsiddiqi91) July 9, 2021

However, the netizens slammed the actor and the movie crew for not taking care of the environment and also asked them to clean their village daily.

Some of them said the reaction of the film party smacks of arrogance.

Ladakhis have expressed their desperation and anger at the iresponsible behaviour of the tourists as some of them have been found polluting their lakes and other water bodies.

Recently the Magsaysay award winner Sonam Wangchuk took to Twitter  to ask the tourist not to use the sacred Pang Gong lake for washing their cars and throwing garbage in it.  "This is not you car wash facility or a racing ground; it's our sacred lake," a netizen wrote in response to a family posting picture of washing their car at Pang Gong Tso.