Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is on fire and has all the right questions for Modi

Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Sunday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to apologize for his trip to Pakistan in December last year.



Kashyap vented his frustration following the cinema owners' decision here not to screen movies with Pakistani actors, a move that has hit hard Karan Johar's Ae Dil Hai Mushkil which features Pakistani Fawad Khan.

"We solve all our problems by blaming it on movies and banning it. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, with you on this Karan Johar," Kashyap tweeted.

"Narendra Modi Sir, you haven't yet said sorry for your trip to meet the Pakistani PM. It was December 25. Same time KJo was shooting Ae Dil Hai Mushkil? Why?" Anurag asked.

The World must learn from us.. We solve all our problems by blaming it on movies and banning it.. #ADHM . With you on this @karanjohar

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) October 15, 2016

"Narendra Modi, why is it that we have to face it while you can be silent? Narendra Modi and you actually diverted your trip on our tax money, while the film shot then was on money on which someone here pays interest.



"I am just trying to understand the situation because I am actually dumb and I don't get it. Sorry if you feel offended," added the director.

On his way home from Kabul, Modi halted in Lahore in December last year for a surprise meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.

Naturally since Twitter reacted, Kashyap didn't hold back and scribed detailed tweets to make his point clear:

Just to make it clear, I complain because I expect my government to protect us, I question the PM because I have every right to..

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) October 16, 2016

I am not going to address a party that has become redundant and irrelevant and is trying to find relevance again by using the film industry

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) October 16, 2016

We have been vulnerable for long, and have been paying the price by being used by every one to find any kind of standing..

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) October 16, 2016

And anyone who questions my love for the country by shouting , must prove there love by representing the country either on the border ..

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) October 16, 2016

Or prove your love by representing the country in a honourable way.. Not by shouting here..

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) October 16, 2016

And yes sir @narendramodi we need protection.. It's really high time..

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) October 16, 2016

I refuse to live in the fear created by blind fanatics that you cannot have a conversation with your PM or question him or expect from him

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) October 16, 2016

I would rather ask my questions directly to the PM than trying to impress him by fake nationalism of banning "what puts you in news"

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) October 16, 2016

And media should stop trying to call me because you are wasting your time,because this all that I have to say and they were not drunk tweets

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) October 16, 2016

 

And the real trade between the two countries across the border has not faced any kind of opposition, but we must pay the price for it

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) October 16, 2016

 

The Cinema Owners and Exhibitors Association of India on Friday said that movies featuring Pakistani actors would not be screened in single screen theatres in Maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat.

The decision came amid heightened India-Pakistan tensions in the wake of a terror attack on an Indian Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir and the Indian Army's surgical strikes on Pakistani territory.

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's Raees is also under the radar for featuring Pakistan actor Mahira Khan.

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