India is very tolerant : Aamir Khan

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has now said India is a very tolerant country and has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop people who spread hatred and try to break the country.

"Our country is very tolerant, but there are people who spread ill-will.. Those who speak of breaking up this vast country, such people are present in all religions, only Modiji can stop them. After all, Modiji is our PM, we have to tell him" Aamir Khan said on Rajat Sharma's Aap ki Adalat', according to a press release by India TV.

Aamir said he had immense trust in the law of the land and added that PM Modi has already expressed his concern over negativity and hatred.

"Law is equal for all, and nobody is above law. Unfortunately, there are some people who spread negativity and hatred. If I am not wrong, our prime minister has also expressed concern. His slogan is sabka saath, sabka vikas'," he said.

"I had said in my interview that there was a sense of depression, a sense of despondency, a feeling of insecurity and intolerance was growing. But these are entirely two different things. I never said India was intolerant, I was wrongly quoted.. To say about rising intolerance and to say India is intolerant are two different things."

About the government agency's decision not to renew his contract as the brand ambassador of tourism in India, Aamir said "For me, my motherland is my mother, it cannot be a brand. I can never view my mother as a brand. It could be a brand for other people, but not for me. Till this date, I continue to be India's brand ambassador, even the government may have discontinued me"

Back in November 2015, Aamir had said "As an individual, as part of this country as a citizen, we read in the papers what is happening, we see it on the news and certainly, I have been alarmed. I can't deny. I have been alarmed by a number of incidents"

"When I chat with Kiran at home, she says Should we move out of India?' That's a disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make. She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers every day. That does indicate that there is this sense of growing disquiet, there is growing despondency apart from alarm. You feel why this is happening, you feel low. That sense does exist in me"