Snappy Hema

IN Media Watch Briefs | 04/06/2016

'Wait ! ' she said waving her fingers at the cameras ...' don't talk too much !!' ..this was the Mathura BJP MP and Bollywood's former heroine Hema Malini on Friday dismissing reporters who dared to ask her why she was busy with film shooting while Mathura was witnessing a major law and order problem with over 24 people killed in the last 48 hours. 

 

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