Click to play videoNew Delhi: While the Shiv Sena and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) threaten to disrupt the release of Shah Rukh Khan's film My Name Is Khan, some BJP members watched it at a special screening in New Delhi on Friday evening.
Shah Rukh Khan has been the Shiv Sena's latest target with Sainiks tearing down posters of his latest film My Name Is Khan and asking Mumbaikars to boycott the film because the actor spoke out for inclusion of Pakistani cricket players in the IPL.
But members of its principal ally, the BJP, and other political parties enjoyed Khan's latest offering at a special screening organised in the Capital.
"Politics and films should be kept separate. It's an unnecessary controversy. There is no need for all this," said former cricketer and BJP leader Chetan Chauhan.
With the RSS also speaking out against the Shiv Sena's Marathi manoos policy, the BJP has towed the line and is now keen to project a more secular image.
In an interview to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate two weeks back BJP President Nitin Gadkari had said that development and religion was his party's appeal.
Entertainers can be politicians and Bollywood too has its set of politics.
But cinema is supposed to be about fun that everyone can enjoy.
Perhaps it is high time politicians stop and let the aam aadmi decide whether a movie is worth watching or not.
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