India, May 17 -- After making headlines for her appearance at the Cannes Film Festival, actor Alia Bhatt found herself at the centre of social media chatter, with trolls taking aim at her fashion choices and some even claiming she was "ignored" by a section of photographers on the red carpet. Amid the online buzz, Alia's mother, Soni Razdan, has now reacted to the criticism.

On Saturday, writer Shunali Khullar Shroff took to Instagram to put out a post defending Alia against the backlash. She shared the post with a caption that read, "Alia Bhatt at Cannes, our bruised national pride over imagined slights, and then glee that a female star was shown her place - some thoughts. #cannes2026."

In the post, Shunali wrote, "Alia Bhatt wasn't ig...