Sara Ali Khan arrived on the Bollywood scene with a bang. She won over the critics as well as the audience with her very first film, Abhishek Kapoor's Kedarnath. After that, she wowed everyone yet again with her performance in Rohit Shetty's Simmba.

However, Sara has rubbed netizens the wrong way with her magazine debut. She shot for her first-ever magazine cover in Kenya and though she looks absolutely stunning, the presence of Africans as "props" has not gone down too well with Twitteratti.

The magazine shared a sneak-peek from the photoshoot on Twitter and trolls claimed that it was extremely "racist" and "offensive".

Sara Ali Khan has stirred up a storm with her photoshoot for a magazine cover.

"Why is there a jumping Masai warrior behind Sara Ali Khan?? Africans are not props for your photoshoots," a Twitter user by the name of Chirag Wakaskar wrote, calling the actress "self-entitled Bollywood garbage".

Another Twitter user wrote, "Sara Ali Khan, I reserve judgment cuz I'd like to believe u r 'woke' enough to know that Africans in their traditional attire are not props for ur photoshoots! This article better have content on the people & culture u have photographed, if not, this is highly offensive!! (sic)"

"In what way is it okay to use another human being as a prop... way to disrespect Africa," a South African Twitter user commented.

"What's the point of such cultural appropriation?" a Twitter user named Prerna Hegde questioned. Another user wrote that she was "digusted" by the photoshoot. "No. You did not just do this. I am so disgusted. Please take down this racist shoot," she tweeted.

"And I thought her Ivy League education would have taught her that it is not okay to misappropriate other cultures. Turns out Sara Ali Khan is as ignorant as other Bollywood celebrities which is kind of sad because she did come across as intelligent initially," one person commented.

Meanwhile, on the work front, speculation is rife that Sara has been signed for David Dhawan's remake of Coolie No 1 opposite Varun Dhawan. She will step into Karisma Kapoor's shoes and the makers are tweaking the script to ensure that she gets a meatier role in the remake.

Buzz is that the Coolie No 1 remake will go on floors in July and hit the screens sometime next year.

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