Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has reacted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advice to his party workers to stop commenting on films. At an event in Mumbai on Thursday, Kashyap said that the PM’s advice comes late as the “mob is out of control now”.
The Gangs of Wasseypur director said PM Modi’s advice to his party workers would have made a difference had he spoken about it four years ago.
Kashyap: Things have gone out of hand
“If he had said this four years ago, it’d have made a difference. Now, I don’t think it’ll make a difference. It was about controlling their own people. Things have gone out of hand now. I don’t think anybody will listen to anyone. When you stay silent, you empower prejudice and you empower hatred. It has now got so much empowered that it is a power in itself. The mob is out of control now,” the filmmaker told reporters.
However, when producer Shariq Patel welcomed PM Modi’s advice to his party workers at the same event, Kashyap responded, “Even I hope I’m wrong about this, I’ll be very happy if I’m proved wrong.”
What did PM Modi say to his party workers?
In his address at the BJP national executive recently, PM Modi had suggested party workers to refrain from making unnecessary remarks on irrelevant issues such as movies as they put the party’s development agenda on the back-burner.
His advice to his workers comes two weeks after actor Suniel Shetty sought Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s help against the ‘Boycott Bollywood’ trend on social media.
Bollywood controversies
Over the last few years, the Hindi film industry found itself at the centre of several controversies, ranging from its nepotistic practices, celebrity culture, drug menace and content of the movies and shows.
Most recently, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham’s film Pathaan landed in a row over its first song Besharam Song. Many politicians had slammed the song for hurting the sentiments of Hindu community because of the costumes used in the track.
Several Bollywood films, including Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha, Akshay Kumar’s Raksha Bandhan, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt’s Brahmastra, Karan Johar’s Liger and others, have battled the #BoycottBollywood trend on social media last year.
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