Sir — It is perplexing as to why Indian film-makers and artistes have an affinity to keep requesting not to ‘politicise’ art. It is absolutely fine for film-maker Karan Johar to say that his sentiments post the Uri attack are those with the rest of the nation.
But if he or others in the film industry were more politically savvy, they would have collectively tried to call the bluff over the influence some are trying to project. While doing so, it is possible that Johar’s film could have taken some financial backlash, but for someone in his position, with his stature and financial background, such a hit would have been absorbable by all means.