F arrhana Bhatt didn’t win Bigg Boss 19 . At least not officially. But in Kashmir, she’s being celebrated as the “audience winner”, a young woman who held her ground, spoke her mind, and refused to shrink herself on national television. Videos of Kashmiris cheering for her, women defending her choices, and young people celebrating her rise flooded social media hours after the finale. When it comes to her home, s he received her flowers.

Yet , running parallel to this wave of support was a familiar storm of moral policing. Many declared that she does not represent “Kashmiri culture”, that she embarrassed the Valley, and that she should not be the face of a place already burdened with stereotypes.

On social media, Kashmiri men accused Bhatt of “misrepresenting” t

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