Sonu Sood Apologizes To Northern Railway After It Criticizes Him For Taking A Footboard; Claims That He Did So To Observe How Lakhs Of Poor People Feel

Sonu Sood, a popular Bollywood actor, never misses an opportunity to relax whenever he has a break from his hectic schedule. His admirers and following are always kept informed as he uses social media regularly. He made headlines a few weeks ago when a video of him riding on a train's footboard went viral. The Northern Railway appears to have been disappointed with the film, though.

The actor should refrain from doing this. It would convey the "wrong message" to his followers, the official Northern Railway Twitter account said on Wednesday evening. The tweet read,

प्रिय, @SonuSood

देश और दुनिया के लाखों लोगों के लिए आप एक आदर्श हैं। ट्रेन के पायदान पर बैठकर यात्रा करना खतरनाक है, इस प्रकार की वीडियो से आपके प्रशंसकों को गलत संदेश जा सकता है।

कृपया ऐसा न करें! सुगम एवं सुरक्षित यात्रा का आनंद उठाएं। https://t.co/lSMGdyJcMO

— Northern Railway (@RailwayNorthern) January 4, 2023

The Dabangg actor apologized to the Northern Railway in his response to the above tweet on Thursday morning. He responded in Hindi,

क्षमा प्रार्थी
बस यूँ ही बैठ गया था देखने,
कैसा महसूस करते होंगे वो लाखों ग़रीब जिनकी ज़िंदगी अभी भी ट्रेन के दरवाज़ों पे गुज़रती है।
धन्यवाद इस संदेश के लिए और देश की रेल व्यवस्था बेहतर करने के लिए। https://t.co/F4a4vKKhFy

— sonu sood (@SonuSood) January 5, 2023

On December 13, 2022, a video of Sonu Sood riding the footboard went viral. The Bollywood actor had also come under fire from the Mumbai Railway Police Commissionerate for the same. The government agency requested the actor to follow safety protocols in a tweet. Traveling on the footboard "may be a source of 'Entertainment' in movies, not real life," the Mumbai Railway Police Commissionerate wrote in a brief tweet. On the work front, the 49-year-old actor was most recently seen in Akshay Kumar's Samrat Prithviraj. The movie was released on June 3, 2022.