Bollywood Reacts After Bajrang Dal Attacks Filmmaker Prakash Jha's Set In Bhopal
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Actor Swara Bhasker said she was horrified after learning about the incident and noted that the attack points towards the growing intolerance in the country.
Filmmakers Hansal Mehta, Sudhir Mishra, and Pritish Nandy stressed upon the urgent need to band together against relentless targeting of the Hindi film industry after director-producer Prakash Jha and his crew were attacked while they were filming the third season of the series "Ashram" in Bhopal. Shocking, shameful and utterly believable! No one is safe in #NewIndia .. The culture of rampant impunity to lynch mobs has brought us to a point where anyone can be attacked anytime for anything! Surreal & horrifying. https://t.co/fj2J8wzTYb
Bajrang Dal activists allegedly ransacked the set of the series on Sunday and also threw ink on Jha, its producer-director, accusing him of portraying Hindus wrongly. The show, which was released last year, features actor Bobby Deol as Baba Nirala, a conman.
Sharing a news report on his Twitter profile, Mr Mehta said he wondered who from the industry would voice their concern regarding the attack on their colleagues.
"Scared silence and continued deference will only empower such hooligans and further such oppression. But who will bell the cat?" the "Scam 1992" maker wrote.
