Many prominent Bollywood celebrities including Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Rohit Shetty, Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra, Rajkummar Rao, Karan Johar and Ayushmann Khurrana landed in Delhi on Thursday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The meeting is being organised to discuss the impact of cinema on Indian culture. The meeting comes weeks after the PM met Bollywood producers and discussed issues faced by the industry, which led to the reduction in GST on film tickets by the government.Karan Johar shared a picture with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his social media and wrote, 'Powerful and timely conversations can bring about change and this was one of what we hope will become a regular conversation. Meeting the Honorable Prime Minister @narendramoditoday was an incredible opportunity.
As a community, there is a huge interest to contribute to nation building. There is so much that we want to do. And can do and this dialogue was towards how and what ways we can do that. When the youngest country (in demography) joins hands with the largest movie industry in the world, we hope to be a force to reckon with. Together we would love to inspire and ignite positive changes to a transformative India.
The film industry would also like to send a huge thanks for the GST reduction in movie ticket prices that was implemented recently!
Thank you so much for your time, Sir!'
"There is a meeting happening with PM today with people from the film industry, including actors," sources close to the development told PTI.
The insider, however, did not disclose the agenda of the meeting.
Bollywood celebrities arrive in Delhi to meet PM Modi
The delegation, which is a mix of directors and actors, has been organised by filmmaker Karan Johar, the source added.
The line-up from Bollywood also includes directors Rohit Shetty and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, producers Ekta Kapoor and Mahaveer Jain, actors Rajkummar Rao, Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar and Sidharth Malhotra.
Bollywood celebrities arrive in Delhi to meet PM Modi
After the December 19 meeting with PM drew flak on social media for not having any female representation on the panel, inclusion of names such as Alia and Bhumi is a step up.
Actors-producers Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Karan Johar, Sidharth Roy Kapur, Ritesh Sidhwani and others were censured by internet users for not including any women in the panel.
(with PTI Inputs)
