In 2018, talking about Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s performance in Thackeray, Richa Chadha had tweeted: “Arrey, humra Faizal to bipolar nikla.” Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s character in the Gang of Wasseypur series was called Faizal. Richa played Nawazuddin’s onscreen mother in the film. Take a look at the tweet from 2018:
On Monady, Richa Chadha tweeted, saying she is “now only beginning to grasp what mental health means” and went on to apologise for a tweet she posted last year in which she joked about someone being “bipolar” – she had tweeted about Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s performance in 2018, in which she used the word “bipolar” but more on that later. The Fukrey actress wrote, “I think last year I made a joke about someone being ‘bipolar’. The joke was born out of a petulant desire to seem witty in even less than 280 characters. As I am now only beginning to grasp what #mentalhealth means, I just want to apologise and couldn’t have said this sooner!”