Indian film industry is citadel of secularism: Javed Akhtar
Mumbai
March 28, 2017
The Indian film industry is a citadel of secularism where there's no scope
for communal bias, says veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar.
"I had
joined the film industry in 1965 on a salary of 50 rupees a month. In these 53
years, not for a second I have experienced or even seen any communal bias in our
industry. This film industry is the citadel of secularism. Bigots, don't try to
pollute it," Akhtar tweeted on Wednesday.
Akhtar's comment comes amid a
raging debate which got sparked by a social media user's tweet questioning
Bollywood star Aamir Khan's right to play Lord Krishna in the actor's proposed
screen version of the "Mahabharata".
When a Twitter user questioned
Akhtar on the correlation of Rs 50 and secularism, the critically acclaimed
writer commented: "This is to establish that even when I was economically in a
very humble and socially in a very vulnerable position, then too I didn't feel
any discrimination at least on any communal grounds."
Mumbai
March 28, 2017
The Indian film industry is a citadel of secularism where there's no scope
for communal bias, says veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar.
"I had
joined the film industry in 1965 on a salary of 50 rupees a month. In these 53
years, not for a second I have experienced or even seen any communal bias in our
industry. This film industry is the citadel of secularism. Bigots, don't try to
pollute it," Akhtar tweeted on Wednesday.
Akhtar's comment comes amid a
raging debate which got sparked by a social media user's tweet questioning
Bollywood star Aamir Khan's right to play Lord Krishna in the actor's proposed
screen version of the "Mahabharata".
When a Twitter user questioned
Akhtar on the correlation of Rs 50 and secularism, the critically acclaimed
writer commented: "This is to establish that even when I was economically in a
very humble and socially in a very vulnerable position, then too I didn't feel
any discrimination at least on any communal grounds."
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