Actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar has taken a dig at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao over his remarks that most Indian film stars have \u201cvery low IQ and very low general knowledge\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow dare you, sir?\u201d an angry Farhan tweeted and tagged the BJP leader.<\/p>\n
Farhan\u2019s comment was in reaction to an interview Rao gave to Times Now TV over the ongoing controversy on Tamil film \u201cMersal\u201d that has scenes critical of the GST and the Digital India initiatives of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n
Rao, criticising the movie and its makers in the TV interview, said: \u201cIn any case, most of our film stars have very low IQ, very low general knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMersal\u201d, Tamil actor Vijay\u2019s Diwali release, is in the news after the Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded removal of specific dialogues which take a dig at GST and digital India.<\/p>\n
Reacting to Farhan\u2019s tweet, Rao replied, \u201cFarhan ji, Expressing an opinion is not a dare. Respect stars4work. Pl do take criticism in stride. No intolerance please!!\u201d<\/p>\n
When a user tweeted, \u201cI thought u knew the difference between \u2018all\u2019 and \u2018most of\u2019. U only proved him right,\u201d Farhan responded to him and tweeted, \u201cIt\u2019s not about most and all. It\u2019s the condescending attitude towards the profession.\u201d<\/p>\n
Politicians, including Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and DMK leader MK Stalin, apart from actor Kamal Haasan, slammed the BJP\u2019s attempt to muzzle criticism regarding its policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar has taken a dig at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao over his remarks that most Indian film stars have \u201cvery low IQ and very low general knowledge\u201d. \u201cHow dare you, sir?\u201d an angry Farhan tweeted and tagged the BJP leader. Farhan\u2019s comment was in reaction to an interview Rao […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[365,399,108,369],"class_list":["post-8308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-celebrities","tag-farhan-dares-bjp","tag-politics","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}