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Ramadoss should stop targeting Bollywood: Big B
Hitting back at Anbumani Ramadoss for his
repeated comments over smoking on the silver screen, Bollywood
superstar Amitabh
Bachchan has said the Health Minister should focus on his own people
and stop
tarnishing the image of the film industry.
"All I request the Minister is to focus on his own people. By asking Shah Rukh Khan or me to quit smoking or alcohol in our cinema, an attempt is being made to tarnish the image of the film industry. That should not happen," said the Bollywood legend.
The actor refused to agree that smoking and drinking scenes portrayed in the films provoke people to indulge in such practice in real life.
"If the country was getting so influenced by what we were doing then how do you explain the partition of India, which to me was the most painful thing... the Bhagalpur blindings, will you blame the film industry for that too?" Bachchan argued during a television interview.
Distancing himself from active politics, Bachchan, when asked about his move in case of a possible alliance between Congress and Samajwadi Party, said: "These are all political events which are not for me. My best wishes are always with Samajwadi Party and the Congress."
Asked whether he thought Rahul Gandhi was fit to be a Prime Ministerial candidate, he said, "That's not for me to decide. But I do wish him all the best."
"All I request the Minister is to focus on his own people. By asking Shah Rukh Khan or me to quit smoking or alcohol in our cinema, an attempt is being made to tarnish the image of the film industry. That should not happen," said the Bollywood legend.
The actor refused to agree that smoking and drinking scenes portrayed in the films provoke people to indulge in such practice in real life.
"If the country was getting so influenced by what we were doing then how do you explain the partition of India, which to me was the most painful thing... the Bhagalpur blindings, will you blame the film industry for that too?" Bachchan argued during a television interview.
Distancing himself from active politics, Bachchan, when asked about his move in case of a possible alliance between Congress and Samajwadi Party, said: "These are all political events which are not for me. My best wishes are always with Samajwadi Party and the Congress."
Asked whether he thought Rahul Gandhi was fit to be a Prime Ministerial candidate, he said, "That's not for me to decide. But I do wish him all the best."
Comment 1: By vivek vikram v on 16th May 2008
He shuld find salution insted of finding cause.
but ofcourse All film stars should bear in mind
youth are following their footsteps.
Comment 2: By Srikala sampath on 15th May 2008
Mr.Ramdoss can concentrate on other major isssues
like effects on indians by the pollutants that are
used by our day to day activities such as plastic,
leather industry, Dyeing indistry , Bleaching
industry and etc. He has to define his role in
these areas and he shold not escape by saying that
it is pollution control board job.
Comment 3: By Deepti Talwar on 13th May 2008
I never knew that a minister of health, of a
country like India has been assigned the job of
analyzing which actor is smoking or drinking in
which movie? Had he been confined to the
responsibilities assigned to him India's health
care condition wouldn't have been so poor.Where
every day a new disease is spreading epidemic in
the country about which he has no knowledge at all
I feel.Many a time doctors are clueless about the
cause and the treatment to be given to some
diseases.
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