’25 years in the past, they bodily assaulted me, blackened my face and…’ – Firstpost

Netflix’s ‘Scoop’ director Hansal Mehta has additionally commented on the comic Kunal Kamra row.

In a protracted assertion, the filmmaker stated, “What occurred with Kamra is, sadly, not new to Maharashtra. I’ve lived via it myself. Twenty-five years in the past, loyalists of the identical (then undivided) political get together stormed into my workplace. They vandalised it, bodily assaulted me, blackened my face, and compelled me to apologise publicly – by falling on the ft of an aged lady – for a single line of dialogue in my movie.”

“The road was innocent, virtually trivial. The movie had already been cleared by the Censor Board with 27 different cuts. However that didn’t matter. On the so-called ‘apology’ venue, at the least 20 political figures arrived in full energy to supervise what can solely be described as a public shaming with 10,000 onlookers and the Mumbai police watching in silence,” Hansal Mehta added.

“That incident didn’t simply bruise my physique. It bruised my spirit. It blunted my filmmaking, muted my braveness, and silenced components of me that took years to reclaim. Regardless of how deep the disagreement, irrespective of how sharp the provocation, violence, intimidation, and humiliation can by no means be justified. We owe ourselves, and one another, higher. We owe ourselves dialogue, dissent, and dignity,” he continued.