Javed Akhar responds to Sandeep Reddy Vanga: ‘Couldn’t find even one objectionable line in my 53-year career’ | bollywood

Veteran screenwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar has broken his silence on filmmaker Sandeep Reddy Vanga, taking offense to his veiled criticism of the latter’s latest directorial Animal, starring Ranbir Kapoor. In an interview with magical story, Javed clarified that while Sandeep has the right to make as many animals as he wants, it is a fact that the director could not find any flaw in Javed’s 53-year-old filmography. (Also Read: Sandeep Reddy Vanga reacts to Javed Akhtar’s animal comment: You will feel like vomiting after watching Farhan’s Mirzapur)

Javed’s response

“I wasn’t criticizing the filmmaker at all. I believe that in a democratic society, he has the right to create an animal and many animals. I was concerned about the audience, not the filmmaker. He has the right to make any film,” said Javed, who clarified that he has not seen the film, he has only heard about it. He doesn’t care that Sandeep values ​​a character like that because the Constitution protects his right to do so. He added that his concern lies in the millions of people who celebrated the film.

About Mirzapur’s comment

After Sandeep criticized Javed for criticizing misogyny in his film but did not point out the same in Prime Video India Original’s show Mirzapur, produced by his son Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment. “When he responded to me, I was honored. In 53 years of my career, I couldn’t find a movie, a script, a scene, a dialogue, a song. So he had to go to my son’s office and look for a TV series that is neither acted, directed nor written by Farhan. His company produced it. Nowadays, these big companies like Excel are producing a lot of things. So one of them is this one. He mentioned that. I was very flattered. 53 years ke career mein tum kuchh bhi nahi nikaal paye (Couldn’t you find anything sexist in 53 years of my career)? What a shame,” Javed added.

Controversy erupted when Javed spoke at an event and said in reference to the shoe-licking scene between Ranbir and Triptii Dimri’s characters in Animal: “I think it’s a testing moment for young filmmakers today as to what kind of characters want to create. that society will applaud. For example, if there is a movie where a man asks a woman to lick his shoe or if a man says it is okay to slap a woman, and if the movie is a big hit, then that is very dangerous.” .

Sandeep responded to Javed’s criticism of his film in an interview with Siddharth Kannan, “Why didn’t you say the same thing to Farhan Akhtar when he was producing Mirzapur? Duniya bhar ke gaali Mirzapur ek show mai hai (the series is full of abuses) and I have not watched the entire show. When the show was translated into Telugu, if you watch it, you will feel like vomiting. Why don’t you check his son’s work?

On the work front, Javed is writing the lyrics for Lahore 1947. Sandeep will start shooting for Spirit and Animal Park.

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