Naseeuddin Shah Calls Anupam Kher A ‘Clown’, Kher Responds & Calls Him ‘Frustrated’

The Citizenship Amendment Act has been dominating headlines, interviews, and conversations since December last year. Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah recently appeared for an interview and expressed his views regarding the act and Bollywood’s collective silence over the issue.

However, Naseeruddin Shah mentioned fellow actor Anupam Kher and called him a “clown” and a “sycophant” for his “vocal” tweets, reports News18.

“Someone like Anupam Kher has been very vocal. I don’t think he needs to be taken seriously. He is a clown. Any number of his contemporaries from NSD (National School of Drama) and FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) can testify to his sycophantic nature. It is in his blood. He can’t help it,” Shah said.

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Shah also expressed his views on Deepika Padukone’s visit to JNU, reports Hindustan Times.

“You have to laud the courage of a girl like Deepika who is in the top firmament and yet takes a step like this. Even if she has a lot to lose. Let us see how she takes it. She’ll lose a few endorsements, sure. Will that impoverish her? Will that lessen her popularity? Will that make her less beautiful than she is? They’re gonna come around sooner or later. The only god that film industry worships is money,” he said.

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It didn’t take much longer for his comment to go viral and it reached the ears of Anupam Kher. Kher then took to his Twitter to post a video of himself in response to Naseeruddin Shah’s comment, reports NDTV.

“Though I have never said anything bad about you but now I will. You have spent your entire life in frustration, despite achieving so much. If you can criticise Dilip Kumar sahab, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Shah Rukh Khan, and Virat Kohli, then I’m sure I’m in great company. None of them has ever taken your statements seriously as we all know that due to the substances you have been taking all these years, you don’t realise the difference between what is right and what is wrong,” Kher said.

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