After Rishabh Pant's 'behen' post, now comes Urvashi Rautela's 'chotu bhaiya' response

This fight is getting messier. After Rishabh Pant's 'Mera Picha Chhoro Behen' post on Instagram apparently addressing her, actor Urvashi Rautela has responded with an even snarkier 'Chotu bhaiyaa' post.

"Chotu bhaiyaa should play bat ball. Main koyi munni nahi hoon badnam hone with young kiddo darling tere liyee ( Younger brother should play bat ball, I am not a naive girl to get defamed for you, young kiddo darling)" said her latest post. It also carried an emoji of a cricket bat and ball, for good measure.

The hashtags were equally blistering. "#RPChotuBhaiyya (again, those initials) #Cougarhunter and #donttakeadvantageofasilentgirl," the Bollywood actor wrote, wishing the target of her attack a happy Raksha Bandhan day.

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Rautela's post came a few hours after Pant wrote 'Mera Picha Chhoro Behen' ( Leave me alone, sister) in a post that seemed to suggest she was taking his name in vain for the sake of publicity.

"It's funny how people lie in interviews just for some publicity and for hitting the headlines. Sad how some people are so thirsty for fame and name. May God bless them. That post was hashtagged #merapichachorhoBehen ( Stop following me, sister) and #Jhutkibhilimithotihai ( There is a limit even to lies), the star cricketer wrote.

It was taken down in about ten minutes, but netizens happily shared screenshots of his post saying it was a clap back at Rautela for an interview she gave recently.

In that interview with Bollywood Hungama - the starting point for this round of barbs - Rautela said she inadvertently made a certain "Mr RP" wait for hours in her hotel lobby because she fell asleep after a long shoot.

Both of them have not taken each other's name so far, but it did not take people on social media a great deal of math to add two and two together. Rishabh Pant, 24, and Urvashi Rautela, 28, were consistently linked in media columns back in 2018, though the cricketer denied the two were dating. Whatever the nature of the relationship, it ended acrimoniously.