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Union minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju took potshot at filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, saying people use Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name to get into news. In a tweet Mr Rijiju said, a new fashion has developed in India. A student or a film person can put a question or speak against Prime Minister without any logic to get into news.
In a series of tweets, Anurag Kashyap had said that why should only Indian filmmakers be targeted for casting Pakistani actors when the PM also made a trip to Lahore last year. The director had written to show support for Karan Johar’s upcoming movie Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. This film has landed in soup over casting Pakistani actor Fawad Khan.
Anurag Kashyap has defended his tweets about Prime Minister Narendra Modi, choosing this time to share his opinion on Facebook.
In a post today, Mr Kashyap, whose films include Bombay Velvet and Dev-D, said that the film industry is “damned if we do, damned if we don’t.” The 44-year-old said that if Bollywood does not weigh in on political issues, it’s accused of being spineless. But “when we involve ourselves, we become the scapegoat,” he said.
Mumbai Police Assures security to ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’
MNS intensifies opposition against ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’
In the aftermath of Uri attack last month, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena issued an ultimatum to Pakistani artistes to leave India. Subsequently, Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association passed a motion to ban the artistes from the neighbouring country.
Recently, Cinema Owners Exhibitors Association of India also decided to not screen the films with Pakistani actors in four states Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Goa.
@narendramodi Sir you haven’t yet said sorry for your trip to meet the Pakistani PM.. It was dec 25th. Same time KJo was shooting ADHM? Why?
@narendramodi why is it that we have to face it while you can be silent??
@narendramodi and you actually diverted your trip on our tax money,while the film shot then was on money on which someone here pays interest
@narendramodi I am just trying to understand the situation because I am actually dumb and I don’t get it. Sorry if you feel offended..
MNS intensifies opposition again ADHM
The Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has intensified its opposition to Karan Johar’s soon-to-be-released film ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ as it features a Pakistani actor and issued a veiled threat of vandalism to the multiplexes if they screened it.
The opposition by MNS and some other political parties to films with actors from Pakistan in the aftermath of Uri terror attack has put a question mark on the fate of Johar’s film which features Pakistani actor Fawad Khan.