Indian film industry is citadel of secularism: Javed Akhtar

Mumbai March 28 (IANS) The Indian film industry is a citadel of secularism where there s no scope for communal bias says veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar.

"I had joined the film industry in 1965 on a salary of 50 rupees a month. In these 53 years not for a second I have experienced or even seen any communal bias in our industry. This film industry is the citadel of secularism. Bigots don t try to pollute it " Akhtar tweeted on Wednesday.

Akhtar s comment comes amid a raging debate which got sparked by a social media user s tweet questioning Bollywood star Aamir Khan s right to play Lord Krishna in the actor s proposed screen version of the "Mahabharata".

When a Twitter user questioned Akhtar on the correlation of Rs 50 and secularism the critically acclaimed writer commented: "This is to establish that even when I was economically in a very humble and socially in a very vulnerable position then too I didn t feel any discrimination at least on any communal grounds."

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