“I Don’t Take The Government Seriously,” Says Abhay Deol When Asked About The Ban On Pak Actors

Abhay Deol is one of those few actors from whom we expect honesty and logic. He has proved himself as an actor with every project he has been on like ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!’, ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’, ‘Raanjhanaa’, ‘Dev.D’ etc. He comes across as one of the “intelligent actors”, as they say.

At the MAMI Film Festival in Mumbai, Abhay Deol was asked what was his reaction to Pakistani artists being banned by the IMPPA and people opposing the release of Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. He had some very curt words to say.

#WATCH: “If you want to ban anything to do with Pak,then go the distance. Don’t just ban filmmakers”, says Abhay Deol on #ADHM controversy pic.twitter.com/OiGMTRUwu8

— ANI (@ANI_news) October 20, 2016

“When you do half a job, no one is going to take you seriously. I don’t take the government seriously. Right now it’s not looking like you mean it, it just looks like it gets you a lot of publicity and makes noise.”

 

Twitter, as usual, went into a frenzy and a lot of people lauded Abhay for his words.

1.

Fantastic actor, highly underrated.
And one of the few intelligent actors in Film Industry. Always logical ? #AbhayDeol

— VISHAL (@V1SH4L) October 20, 2016

 

2.

The fact that #AbhayDeol freely shared his views about #PakArtistsBan & #ImranKhan chose to not share his views is a very telling sign.

— Amena (@Fashionopolis) October 21, 2016

 

3.

who’d have thought #abhaydeol would turn out to be the deol who stood up against bullies. kudos to the guy.

— NoOne (@meha_d) October 21, 2016

 

4.

Will #AbhayDeol be now asked to go to………?

— #DestroyTheAadhaar (@hash62) October 20, 2016

 

5.

People should understand that there is difference between Govt and Nation. Crticising the govt does not make u Anti National. #Abhay Deol

— Be Yusuf (@barmare_yusuf) October 20, 2016

 

While some detested his stand on the whole issue.

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#AbhayDeol said – I Don’t Take Government Seriously.

Ahaan!

Bhai, No One Takes You Seriously Either.

Good luck. You’ll get trolled ?

— Inder J Ⓜ️ (@OfficialInderJ) October 21, 2016

 

2.

Ask your uncle #Dharmendra and aunty #HemaMalini to quit than???ohh you dont take deol family seriously too right…@AbhayDeol #abhaydeol

— Bindass Bol (@imRubyKhan) October 21, 2016

 

3.

When u want to be in news and do some interviews but u have no movies in hand and people have forgotten u then , abuse govt like #AbhayDeol

— Amitabh Chaudhary (@amitabh_aks) October 20, 2016

 

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GADDAR ABHAY DEOL IS A PAKISTANI POLITICIAN IN HAPPY BHAG JAEGI & DUPES A NATIONALIST CALLED BAGGA. COINCIDENCE?https://t.co/GAceYh6D25

— Scotchy (@scotchism) October 20, 2016

 

5.

#AbhayDeol Dont worry we don’t take Seriously Too..

— Rahul Sinha (@sinharahul00) October 21, 2016

Everything is so far away from the real issue now. Only logic can save us.

Do you think he was right?

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