Aren't we getting these hooligans jailed, says Ekta Kapoor

Reacting to threats received by Deepika Padukone, Ekta Kapoor spoke out on social media...

Published: Friday,Nov 17, 2017 11:41 AM GMT-07:00

Abhishek Patil

As we all know Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Padmavati" is facing ire of 'Karni Sena' and Vishwa Hindu Parishad' (VHP), and having hard time to make it's release. The members of above community believe and accused the makers, that the movie "Padmavati', defames their Queen Padmavati.

This 'Art' versus 'Culture' battle getting worse day by day. On account of hurting sentiments of these communities, they have threatened to behead the Director sanjay Leela Bhansali and to maim the lead actress Deepika Padukone by cutting her nose, who is playing a titular role in the movie.

Reacting to this, Ekta Kapoor spoke out on social media saying, these people should be jailed for such open threat and she even called them hooligans. She also mentioned how she experienced such similar incident in The Literature Festival Jaipur.

"Padmavati" cast includes Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh in lead roles, and will be releasing on 1st of December.

Read the twit below

They threw bottles at me at d lit fest in jaipur(I continued without caring just ducked d bottles;))made me apologise' just to get my film releasd(only did it as d Dist was suffering)n now cutting Deepika's nose!Aren't we getting these hooligans jailed for open threats n attacks!
Ekta Kapoor (@ektaravikapoor)

https://twitter.com/ektaravikapoor/status/931392150478245888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">November 17, 2017