PM's words will make no difference now: filmmaker Anurag Kashyap
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Anurag Kashyap (TIE photo).
New Delhi: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap does not seem totally satisfied by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's advice to his party workers not to pick on movies.
At the trailer launch of his latest film in Mumbai, he replied to reporters' query on PM Modi's advice that the latter's advice would have made a difference if it were four years ago, The Indian Express reported.
A day ago, the PM had told BJP workers not to make "unnecessary comments" on films and people related to the sector.
On Thursday, voicing his concerns about widespread hatred in the country, Kashyap said that Modi's advice does not make any difference now. "It was about controlling their own people. I think things have gone out of hand now, it's not that anybody will listen to anyone," TIE quoted Kashyap.
"When you empower prejudice with silence, when you empower hatred with silence, it has become so powerful by itself that it has become (their) strength, that mob is out of control," TIE further quotes him.
TIE writes that Kashyap was always vocal about the growing intolerance in the country against movies and subsequent boycott calls. In a previous interview with the news house, the filmmaker said that the world is now at strange times where everything is boycotted, and the country is bearing a boycott culture.
He told TIE, "Two years later, Sushant Singh Rajput still trends every day. These are strange times, where everything is to be boycotted. It is not just one side; it is happening across. Everyone is being boycotted: political parties, Indian cricket team, everyone."
A BJP office bearer, who was present in the party's national executive meeting where Modi advised workers against comments over movies, claimed that the PM cautioned against those who make such comments just to grab headlines. PM told them to refrain from making such comments, he said.