While Sanjay Leela Bhansali's historical-fiction, Padmaavat, was being attacked by fringe groups, mainly the Karni Sena, the Hindi film industry maintained a stoic silence around the issue.
Bollywood's perceived lack of unity was interpreted as cowardice, with many writing op-ed pieces calling out the divisive nature of the industry members.
On Monday evening, Shah Rukh Khan was present at the Magnetic Maharashtra event, held at BKC's MMRDA grounds in Mumbai, where he was in conversation with Arnab Goswami, producer Ritesh Sidhwani, Amazon Prime Video India head, Vijay Subramaniyam, Viacom Group Head, Sudhanshu Vats, and Lokmat Editorial MD, Rishi Darda.
When the question of the industry's response to Padmaavat came up, SRK addressed it head-on. "Recently with the Viacom film (Padmaavat) we had people saying 'why don't the other stars come up, they are not coming up, oh they are hiding.' No, we are not hiding. As a matter of fact, the simple truth is this – there is a section of people who go on an 'uprising' so to say."
Khan said talking about the issue would give it more 'importance.'
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