“Shah Rukh Khan’s Chak De India twisted facts, alleges Annu Kapoor: ‘They show Muslim as good and make fun of Pandit'”, MSN, October 24, 2024:
“Veteran film actor Annu Kapoor has once again opened up a hornet’s nest by accusing the makers of Shah Rukh Khan’s Chak De! India of trying to fit some sort of communal narrative. The actor said that the filmmakers deliberately changed the lead character to a Muslim.
Kapoor pointed to the 2007 hit Chak De! India and said that Shah Rukh Khan’s character, Kabir Khan, was originally based on the coach Mir Ranjan Negi. But in the film, it was changed to a fictitious Kabir Khan. “The main character in Chak De! India is based on a famous coach, Negi Saab.
But in India, they want to show a Muslim as a good character and make fun of a Pandit (Hindu priest). This is something old, where they use the idea of Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb (Hindu-Muslim unity) to put a label on it,” Kapoor told ANI. This statement comes barely a day after Kapoor claimed that his 7 Khoon Maaf co-star Priyanka Chopra did not want to kiss him on screen as he was not a mainstream hero. That remark had also ignited controversy……”
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