The multilingual actor Prakash Raj aka Prakash Rai has urged India’s biggest star Amitabh Bachchan to break his silence on the hatred, bigotry and violence tearing into the vitals of India.
“You are a big guy, Sir. We respect you a lot. Don’t let future generations ask, ‘When society was in danger, why were you silent?’” Prakash Raj said in a Facebook broadcast.
Prakash Raj belatedly found his voice after the killing of his friend, the journalist Gauri Lankesh last September.
He now routinely speaks up on issues under the #JustAsking hashtag.
He now wants his film industry brethren to use their popular appeal to stop India’s slide into the abyss.
Prakash Raj urged Bachchan Sr:
“You are a great voice, Sir. You are rich enough to lose. That’s what richness is.
“Speak up, Sir. I request you to speak up. Don’t give me reasons, don’t give me excuses that I’m old, i don’t want to get into it.
“You are a wonderful man. You have read poetry. You’re a sensitive man. We need your voice.
“They can’t take away a thing from you, because I don’t believe you are supporting them. But by not voicing [your thoughts] you are not helping us.”
Amitabh Bachchan is brand ambassador of the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ program.
On Bachchan’s silence on the brutal kidnapping, rape, mutilation and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu, Prakash said:
“I felt let down when I heard that. It’s your right to speak or not to speak. Sometimes you have to speak.
“Yes, it is disgusting. Talking about it is not disgusting. It could be my daughter. It could be anybody’s daughter.”
View the full video: https://www.facebook.com/churumuri/videos/10155282636032301/
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I’m horrified that a respected and highly regarded Prakash should address the Indian brand ambassador scoundrel as SIR!! As long as the Panama, Paradise and Bofors scams swirl above the sycophant Srivastava aka Bachan will be singing the tune of the corrupt rotten tomatoes running the country.
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There is a sinister plan hatched in foreign lands to divide India on caste lines.Is not this strange ,all of a sudden there is increase in rape cases on minors?See who is commenting?Sewden is highest in rape cases.Why?India is very less,It must be zero.Leftist ,congress have agenda to defame India and present govenment.If you want I will give world stastics on rape.
Pl dare to publish my post though it may not suit you.
Satya Mev Jayate
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What might the motivation for the West to keep India divided along caste lines? Fascism is doing well by itself in India, and it is not confined to any one single party either. All monuments to Indira Gandhi, her father, and her own brood still stand.
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What might be the motivation . . .
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