Naseeruddin Shah in an interview started that hatred against Muslims is being ‘cleverly’ inscribed into the minds of masses. He also mentioned that it has become an orderly fashion and thereby is worrysome.
In conversation with Indian Express, Naseeruddin Shah stated about the ongoing Islamophobia and averred, “Oh sure, these are worrying times absolutely. The kind of stuff that’s pure, undisguised propaganda is being lapped up and it’s a reflection of the zeitgeist of the times. Muslim hating is fashionable these days, even among educated people. It’s what the ruling party has very cleverly tapped into this nerve. We talk about secular this, democracy that, so why are you introducing religion into everything?.”
He further stated that the election commission is merely a spectator which is letting politicians take vote in the name of religion.
The veteran reaffirms that the religion card will ‘wear off’ soon. “I mean how spineless is the election commission of ours? Who doesn’t even dare utter a word. If there had been a Muslim leader who had said, ‘Allah Hu Akbar bol ke button dabao’, sh*t would have hit the fan. But here our Prime Minister goes ahead and says things like this and yet he loses. So, I have hope that this will wear off. But it’s definitely, at the moment, at its peak. It’s been a very clever card played by this government, and it has worked. Let’s see how long it continues to work,” he added.
Naseeruddin Shah was last seen in Taj: Divided by Blood which also featured Dharmendra, Aashim Gulati, Sandhya Mridul and Aditi Rao Hydari.
