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Javed Akhtar: Bigots, don't try to pollute B-Town

Updated on: 29 March,2018 08:09 AM IST  |  Mumbai
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Writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar says that the Indian film industry is "a citadel of secularism", where there's no scope for communal bias

Javed Akhtar: Bigots, don't try to pollute B-Town

Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar

Writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar says that the Indian film industry is "a citadel of secularism", where there's no scope for communal bias. "I had joined the film industry in 1965 on a salary of Rs 50 a month.


In these 53 years, I have never experienced any communal bias in B-Town. Bigots, don't try to pollute it," Akhtar tweeted. His comment comes amid a raging debate that sparked off when a social-media user questioned Aamir Khan's right to play Lord Krishna in his proposed screen version of the Mahabharata.



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