Siddharth Arora pens poetry on plight of migrant workers

With a lot of celebrities getting vocal about the plight of the migrant workers and the underprivileged during

lockdown

, actor

Siddharth Arora

of Mukti Bandhan fame has recently penned poetry on their travails. The Banaras -born actor recently shared a video of his composition on his social media handle. “After reading a lot of articles on the daily wagers and seeing some heart-rending visuals on them, a thought came across my mind, which I penned down, that has been compiled into a video with the help of my friend Shiva, who lives in Kolkata. In these rather trying times, when the mood is low for most people, the idea through the video was to spread the message that we should be thankful for all that we have as there are people who don’t even have the basic resources to survive,” says the actor .
Siddharth,who played a series of characters like Lord Ram,Lord Krishna,

Chandragupta Maurya

, Harsh Vardhan in a finite

television

series Surajaya Sahnita directed by

Dr Chandraprakash Dwivedi

that was recently on air, says, “Writing is something I dabbled in occasionally. The writer in me was always there as I had improvised on a lot of dialogues while playing various characters on different television shows but as lockdown is springing a lot of surprises with people getting to know about their hidden talent, so writing as a forte is something that has dawned on me during lockdown period”