Actor Imran Khan, who has been supporting the ongoing student protests, showed up on the streets of Mumbai to participate in a protest march on July 22, 2026. During the protest, Imran spoke to the demonstrators and even posed for selfies with them. Now a video of the actor from the march has emerged, wherein he was asked about actors who do not support such movements and claim that art should remain apolitical.

Imran Khan on artists being apolitical

During the protest, an aspiring actor asked Imran if he had anything to say to artists who believe that art is not political. Responding to the question, Imran smiled before saying, "True art is going to have an individual artist point of you embedded within it, and as part of our human nature, we are going to have opinion and perspective that we hold through to ourselves."