Film trade has to pay for being excessive profile: Javed Akhtar concentrating on Bollywood

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Veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar on Tuesday mentioned the Hindi movie trade is beneath scrutiny resulting from its “high profile” nature and it has to pay a “price”.

The veteran author’s assertion comes at a time when Bollywood and its movie star tradition is receiving renewed consideration after celebrity Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested in reference to an alleged seizure of medicine from a cruise ship.

There are voices on social media that the case towards Aryan was a deliberate try to focus on the movie trade.

Asked if he feels Bollywood is being commonly focused by raids, Akhtar informed reporters, “That’s the price the film industry pays for being high profile. When you’re high profile, people enjoy knocking you down, throwing mud at you. If you are nothing, who has time to throw stones at you?” Akhtar was talking on the launch of the e-book Changemakers, authored by authors Almas Virani and Shweta Samota.

Arya Khan was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on October 3 from a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast. Akhtar, with out taking names, mentioned that the celebrity’s son’s case acquired extra media consideration than the alleged “one billion dollar” drug from a port, referring to the seizure of two,988 kg of heroin on the Mundra port situated in Gujarat’s Kutch district. attracted.

According to media stories, ‘You get cocaine price one billion {dollars} at one port, some place else there have been 1200 folks the place ganja and a complete quantity of 1 lakh 30 thousand rupees was discovered. Now it is turn into massive nationwide information, however I have not seen any headlines on billions of {dollars} price of cocaine…”

When requested if he thinks Shah Rukh Khan and Aryan Khan are being focused, Javed Akhtar declined to elaborate.

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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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