New Delhi: Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah today said that his remarks on co-actor Anupam Kher were misreported and he never said against the latter. Early morning reports suggested that Naseeruddin had questioned Anupam’s involvement in the fight for rights of Kashmiri Pandits. Referring to Kher’s vocal fight for the displaced Pandits, Shah had said that the former never lived in the valley.
After allegedly making these comments, Naseeruddin later said that he it is a case of misreporting. When Shah was exiting from an airport, he said,
“I have not said any such thing, this is all misreporting.”
As a response to Shah’s statements, Anupam tweeted that by this logic NRI’s should not be concerned with what happens in India.
Later in the day, Anupam said that he got in touch with Naseeruddin about his statement.
“I contacted Naseeruddin Shah, he has denied making such statements,” said Kher.
Kher, who was recently honoured with Padma Bhushan by the Government of India, has been fighting for the repatriation of Kashmiri Pandits from last 2 decades. The issue was reignited after the BJP-PDP formed government in the border state.
There are about 62,000 registered Kashmiri Pandit families in the country, who migrated from the Valley due to the onset of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s. About 40,000 registered Kashmiri migrant families are living in Jammu, around 20,000 in Delhi-NCR and about 2,000 families are settled in other parts of the country.
Anupam and Naseeruddin worked together in the 2008 thriller ‘A Wednesday’.
