Hindu extremists in India have demanded a ban on Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor’s Lal Singh Chaddha, the Hindi version of the Hollywood blockbuster Forrest Gump.
The reason for the demand to ban the film is nothing else but the fact that Aamir Khan is a Muslim.
Lal Singh Chadha is expected to be one of India’s biggest blockbusters this year as the 57-year-old actor is one of the highest-grossing actors in the Indian film industry, having delivered several blockbusters to Bollywood over the past two decades. have given
Ahead of the film’s August 11 release, clips of a 2015 interview Aamir Khan gave in which he spoke about his sense of growing fear of Hindu extremism are going viral on the internet.
He said that his (then) wife Kiran Rao was thinking of leaving India. Aamir Khan said of his Hindu ex-wife, “She is afraid of her child, she is afraid as what will be the environment around us, she is afraid to open newspapers every day.”
In recent weeks, supporters of India’s ruling Hindu extremist party, BJP, have posted more than 200,00 tweets using the hashtag #BoycottLaalSinghChaddha.