WAR OF WORDS!

JAVED AKHTAR AND MANY OTHERS TOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO RESPOND TO FRANCOIS GAUTIER’S TWEET

Francois Gautier, the France- born, India- based journalist tweeted, “Why should @ AamirKhan, a Muslim, play in most ancient & sacred of Hindu epics, the Mahabharata? Is @ BJP4India Govt of @ narendramodi going to be like the @ INCIndia & just stand by in name of secularism??? Would Muslims allow a Hindu to play life of Mohamed?”

Javed Akhtar replied to Francois, “You scoundrel, have you not seen Peter Brooks production of this great epic Mahabharata in France? I would like to know which foreign agency is paying you to spread this kind of perverse and poisonous thoughts in our country.”

When a Twitter user asked Javed saab if he knew who Ram and Krishna were, he replied, “Yes, I do and in all probability, much more than you. It is beyond your limited single digit IQ that there many people in India who have no religious beliefs but still have a reverence for Indian Mythology.” In another tweet, senior Akhtar explained, “I had joined film industry in 1965 on a salary of 50 rupees per month. In these 53 years not for a second I have experienced or even seen any communal bias in our industry. This Film

Replying to Francois’ tweet Hartosh Singh Bal, Political Editor of The Caravan, wrote, “Why should a francois gautier, of christian name and french blood, be dirtying the mahabharata with his intervention? Is @ BJP4India Govt of @ narendramodi going to be like the @ INCIndia & just stand by in name of

Nitin Pai, co- founder of Takshashila Institution also responded, “This kind of bigotry has no place in our country. We will remain a country that will accept a Gautier as one of its citizens, and will remain a country where a Khan can act in the production of a national