New Delhi: With India celebrating its 71st Independence Day today, Bollywood celebrities took to the social media to mark this special day.
While the megastar Amitabh Bachchan tweeted a video of himself saluting the tricolour national flag with the caption, “Jai Hind,” other B-Town celebs like Shah Rukh Khan, Rishi Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Boman Irani shared their best wishes for fans.
T 2516 -जय हिंद ! स्वतंत्रता दिवस ! pic.twitter.com/zWqIpYd3ps
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) August 14, 2017
The ‘Raees’ star wrote, “Happy Independence Day to all of us,” while the ‘Quantico’ star posted a picture of herself holding a tricoloured dupatta, captioning it as, “Independence Day #Vibes ????#MyHeartBelongsToIndia #HappyIndependenceDayIndia #JaiHind”
Happy Independence Day to all of us.
— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) August 14, 2017
The ‘Roy’ star Arjun Rampal shared the wish in his own style, “Freedom in the mind,faith in the words,pride in our souls,let’s salute our nation on her Independence Day. #happyindependenceday #jaihind.”
https://twitter.com/aamir_khan/status/897338189232300033
Javed Akhtar wrote, “Happy Independence Day to all the http://Indians.Now lets endeavour to get freedom from hunger poverty illiteracy violence n injustice”
Happy Independence Day to all the https://t.co/vhHf5PWXrU lets endeavour to get freedom from hunger poverty illiteracy violence n injustice
— Javed Akhtar (@Javedakhtarjadu) August 15, 2017
‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’ star Varun Dhawan posted a video with a caption, “Happy Independence Day ??????. Today we can enjoy this day only because of our jawaans who sacrifice their lives for us. #jaihind”
Happy Independence Day 🇮🇳🙏. Today we can enjoy this day only because of our jawaans who sacrifice their lives for us. #jaihind pic.twitter.com/g2g3BnMgcd
— VarunDhawan (@Varun_dvn) August 14, 2017
The ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ director Karan Johar? wrote, “I am immensely proud and honoured to be born to a land of diversity…strength and valour…#HappyIndependanceDayIndia #IndiaAt70”
https://twitter.com/karanjohar/status/897268977403142150
‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’ star Akshay Kumar? tweeted, “This #IndependenceDay let’s pledge to support our soldiers. Visit http://bharatkeveer.gov.in to extend your support. We owe them this much ????”
They gave their tomorrow for our today…A lot has been done but a lot still needs to be done. Happy #IndependenceDayIndia pic.twitter.com/PxPAXYpfUT
— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) August 15, 2017
Farhan Akhtar?Verified account @FarOutAkhtar 2h2 hours ago
स्वतन्त्रता दिवस मुबारक।
Happy Independence Day. pic.twitter.com/ngXTYRPLBB— Farhan Akhtar (@FarOutAkhtar) August 15, 2017
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Happy Independence Day.
Boman Irani?Verified account @bomanirani 17m17 minutes ago
As I wished Mom, she said: "Was a twenty year old girl when I woke up to freedom, seventy years ago. What a feeling!"#HappyIndependenceDay pic.twitter.com/p60kYDEGjb
— Boman Irani (@bomanirani) August 15, 2017
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As I wished Mom, she said: “Was a twenty year old girl when I woke up to freedom, seventy years ago. What a feeling!”
And wishing my INDIA, the greatest, a very Happy 70th "Independence Day"! Let peace, brotherhood and love prevail. Vande Mataram! Jai Hind! pic.twitter.com/CRGnK9FmnQ
— Rishi Kapoor (@chintskap) August 14, 2017
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