Naseeruddin Shah reveals he confronted Neeraj Pandey about A Wednesday’s ‘hidden message’: ‘All four terrorists were Muslims, asked him if it was deliberate’

Naseeruddin Shah had recently said that hating Muslims has become fashionable under the present government.

Naseeruddin Shah in a still from A Wednesday.

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Naseeruddin Shah, in a recent interview with indianexpress.com, had stated that hate against Muslims has become ‘fashionable’ and now, in a new interview, the actor spoke about the “hidden meaning” in his film A Wednesday, which was directed by Neeraj Pandey.

Naseer pointed out that all the four terrorists in the film were shown to be Muslims, even though the film was trying to deliver the message that terrorism and hate don’t belong to any particular community or religion. “There was a hidden message in it. All four terrorists were Muslims. I even asked Neeraj if it was deliberate. I asked him why they didn’t have a Tamilian also? He said there’s nothing political in this.”

Naseer continued, “There was no Naxal, No Maoist or from the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), all four of them, Muslims.”

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He previously spoke about ‘propaganda’ to indianexpress.com and said, “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?”

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Taj: Reign of Revenge, also starring Aashim Gulati, is currently streaming on ZEE5.

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