The shooting of Amitabh Bachchan’s next and Shewag’s next Commercial and other big films have come to a grinding Halt in Mumbai on Sunday as Film bodies and people from the film fraternity held protests against Pulwama terror attack. 24 film associations, including Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) and Indian Film & Television Directors’ Association (IFTDA), staged a protest at Filmcity in Goregaon. Sehwag, Singh, Raina and VVS Laxman, among others, were shooting for a commercial in Filmcity but they joined the protest to show their solidarity.
The protest saw participation from major film bodies and the association of cinematographers, makeup men, costumes, junior artists, editors, fighters and dancers. Casting director-filmmaker Mukesh Chhabra, actor Nia Sharma, Isha Kopikar and others were also present at the protest to show their solidarity. According to sources, Bachchan was shooting for his next “Brahmastra” at the venue but the megastar could not come outside for the protest as he was in his get up for the film. BN Tiwari, president of Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE), told that all the film bodies have decided to “completely boycott” any Pakistani artiste working in Hindi films.
President of IFTDA, Ashoke Pandit, echoed a similar sentiment and said the film bodies have decided to boycott Navjot Singh Siddhu. Sidhu, who appears on “The Kapil Sharma Show”, had condemned the incident but courted controversy when he asked whether an entire nation can be blamed for a handful of people. The Punjab Cabinet minister’s comments sparked an uproar on social media, with many people asking for his removal from “The Kapil Sharma Show”. Forty CRPF soldiers were killed and five others critically injured when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle laden with explosives into their bus on Thursday. The Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has claimed responsibility for the attack on the convoy of 78 vehicles that was on its way from Jammu to Srinagar
