After the support shown by Bollywood now, actors turned politician of Bharatiya Janata Party Shatrughan Sinha took the seriousness of the matter of assault on filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali while shooting Padmavati.
The actor says, "These lumpen elements cannot be seen as representing any rational Hindu ideology. No religion in the world gives anyone the right to perpetrate violence or to take the law into one’s own hands."
He added, "I do not know whom they profess their allegiance to. Or what they are protesting about. Have they seen Bhansali’s film, Padmavati? Do they know what is in it? How can they protest about something that has not happened? I think Bhansali is a responsible filmmaker. He would never do anything to damage our religion and culture. If this can happen to Bhansali, I shudder to think what treatment lies in store for lesser mortals."
Sinha later said, "I sincerely urge our Prime Minister Narendra Modiji to take action against the rampant culture of violent protests and to personally look into the cultural intolerance, that is rapidly rising in our country. If you don’t like a film or even the idea of a film, there are legal channels to express your protest and displeasure. Yeh danga-phasaad maar-peet nahin chalega. And that too, inflicted on a filmmaker of such a high calibre? Baap re!"
He thinks the films are an easy target, “Films and filmmakers are easy targets in our country. They are seen as ‘entertainment’ and therefore frivolous and prone to trivialise religion and culture. But a filmmaker like Bhansali takes our culture to the furthest of places in the world. We owe him an apology for what has happened.”
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