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MUMBAI
All great cinema is crime genre: Anurag Kashyap
A democracy gives you the right to ask a question, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap said on Thursday after he was trolled for drawing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attention to a social media post threatening his daughter with rape because of his anti-establishment views.
Kashyap said there should be a law against this kind of trolling, or someone in power should condemn such incidents "in the harshest words" to send across a strong message. The filmmaker has filed an FIR against the troll who posted the abusive post about him and his daughter.
"A democracy gives you the right to ask a question. If I am intimidated for asking a question and later subjected to multiple attacks, I don't find such an atmosphere right," Kashyap told reporters. The director hit the headlines last week when he drew Modi's attention to a right wing troll, who had abused and threatened his daughter with rape for his views.
The director of films such as ‘Dev D’ and ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, who is known to be vocal about his opinions, said he is worried about "the atmosphere of fear, which has emerged". "I am asked 'Don't you get scared while speaking against the government?'... I shouldn't be scared to ask a question," he said during the promotion of a new film, ‘Game Over’.
