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When there was a terrorist attack in Pahalgam on April 22, Javed Akhtar had displayed patriotism as he said an an event, “Yeh baat humein bhulni nahi chahiye, yeh mamooli baat nahi hai. (We shouldn’t forget this).”
He had spoken against Pakistan at Gauravshaali Maharashtra Mahotsav.
However, Pakistani actress Bushra Ansari had reacted to him and said that he should keep quiet like Naseeruddin Shah.She had shared a video on social media in which she said, "Humare writer so-called, unko toh bahana hi chahiye tha. Actually, unko toh makaan kiraaye pe nahi milta tha Bombay mein (Our so called writer is even refused a flat in Mumbai).” She added, “Chaloji chup karjaaye aap.
Naseeruddin Shah bhi toh hai, who chup baithe hai na? Aur bhi toh chup baithe hai na? Jiske dil mein jo hai who rakkha rahe. (Please stay quiet just like Naseeruddin Shah.
Others are also quiet, you too be quiet please).” She had also said that Akhtar should keep quiet as he's on the verge of dying now.Javed Akhtar has finally reacted to this video of Bushra. He said in an interview with Lallantop, “There is this Pakistani actress, Bushra Ansari, she often talks about me. She once advised me to keep quiet. She said something like, ‘Naseeruddin Shah stays quiet, you should too.’ My question to her is: ‘Who is she to tell me when to talk and when not to? Who gave you this right and why do you expect me to take your advise?'”When the interviewer further asked him that Bushra had said that Akhtar didn't get a house in Mumbai, he said, "We internally might have several problems (referring to India), but if an outsider comes to comment, I am an Indian.
Why do they forget that? I won’t keep quiet.” When the interviewer said the the actress claimed that he doesn’t even get a house on rent in Mumbai, Javed sarcastically replied, “Yes right, Shabana and I have been sleeping on the streets lately.
Kya yaar, ab kya bole?” He laughed and said.
Akhtar further recalled what had happened and said, “About 25 years ago, Shabana wanted to buy a flat for investment purpose. But the broker said that the owner will not sell his house to a Muslim. But, do you know why he refused? He refused it because his parents stayed in Sindh from where these Pakistanis shooed them away. Anyone with a wound that big and deep, will react the way the owner reacted. If that day, Shabana was refused a flat, it was not because she was a Muslim, but it was because the owner was displacing his revenge someplace else for what his parents went through.
So who is she (Bushra Ansari) to take a dig at this, and ask me to keep quiet? They must look into their own doings before commenting.”
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