Many Bollywood stars have changed the DPs on their social media handles to the logo of the Maharashtra Police.

Responding to an appeal from Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh over the weekend, several Bollywood celebrities have changed the display pictures on their social media handles to the logo of the Maharashtra Police, who have lost six members to the COVID-19 pandemic. The stars who have changed their profile pictures include Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Katrina Kaif, Karan Johar, Varun Dhawan, Madhuri Dixit, Shabana Azmi, Vidya Balan, Arjun Kapoor, Ananya Panday, Sidharth Malhotra, Richa Chadha and Sonu Sood. Sports stars such as Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri also changed their pictures, as did industrialist Anand Mahindra.