From Yahoo India
Hitting back at Anbumani Ramadoss for his repeated comments over smoking on the silver screen, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has said the Health Minister should focus on his own people and stop tarnishing the image of the film industry. "All I request the Minister is to focus on his own people.
By asking Shahrukh Khan or me to quit smoking or alcohol in our cinema, an attempt is being made to tarnish the image of the film industry. That should not happen," said the Bollywood legend.
The actor refused to agree that smoking and drinking scenes portrayed in the films provoke people to indulge in such practice in real life. "If the country was getting so influenced by what we were doing then how do you explain the partition of India, which to me was the most painful thing.
The Bhagalpur blindings, will you blame the film industry for that too?" Bachchan argued during an interview with CNN-IBN news channel. Distancing himself from active politics, Bachchan, when asked about his move in case of a possible alliance between Congress and Samajwadi Party, said: "These are all political events which are not for me.
My best wishes are always with Samajwadi Party and the Congress." Asked whether he thought Rahul Gandhi was fit to be a Prime Ministerial candidate, he said, "That's not for me to decide.
But I do wish him all the best." PTI.
3 comments:
I too am of the view that just telling the actors not to smoke in screen is very lame...it only helps to be in news...the tokenism of campaign will not yield only meagre results
Hi Shrinivas, Thanks for visiting my blog.I too agree with Umakumar,our health minister has alot of work to improve the health status of our nation.We are still a long way to go in preventing preventable causes of death among children of ages 0-5 yrs.
I think he should concentrate on trying to make health care affordable to all and reachable to all people.
@umakumar: Yes thats rt
@sagar:You're welcome sagar
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