Every time a catastrophic tragedy befalls Bollywood members of fraternity unite to ward off threat that appears to upend industry even if that means siding with someone who is accused of serious crimes yesterday legion of bollywood celebrities took to social media to extend their support & express their solidarity with actor rhea chakraborty after she was arrested by narcotics control bureau for her possible involvement in procurement & consumption of drugs related to sushant singh death probe
Scores of bollywood celebrities who would otherwise indulge in bitching or making gossipy claims about each other came together to defend the embattled actor notwithstanding the grievous charges levelled against her in a show of support to the actor prominent bollywood personalities took to social media uploading posts in which they asked their followers to smash the patriarchy
Some of them even went on to normalise drug peddling Its procurement and consumption claiming that rhea’s arrest is unfair because she was accused in the alleged suicide case of actor sushant singh rajput but has been apprehended in connection with a drug case others reluctant of openly supporting an accused arrested in the drug case questioned spectacle of media trial to extenuate actor & paint her as victim
Bollywood supported sanjay dutt who was accused under terrorist & disruptive activities prevention act 'tada'
However this is not first time that bollywood personalities have come out in support of 1 of their own about 26 years back entire bollywood industry pulled together in support of actor sanjay dutt who was arrested for keeping illegal weapons at his house given to him by abu salem 1 of gangsters responsible for orchestrating gruesome mumbai bomb blasts in 1993
On 4/7/1994 sanjay dutt was remanded to judicial custody for his alleged involvement in mumbai bomb blasts he was arrested under provisions laid down by terrorist & disruptive activities prevention act tada by evening news trickled in throughout industry shahrukh khan who was shooting for commercial shoot hurried to dutt residence at midnight director ram gopal verma & actors jackie shroff & gulshan grover hightailed it to mumbai from hyderabad
Meeting was convened by the cine artistes association at chief asha parekh’s house the next day shock of sanjay’s arrest had sent ripples across the movie industry by next morning i e july 6 Entire bollywood industry was mobilised to extend their support for the actor
Shootings of ongoing movies commercials were cancelled forthright artistes & technicians from the industry gathered at a suburban hotel and from their went to thane jail where dutt was held to hand over a letter to the jailor Turnout was astonishing as several top bollywood personalities from dilip kumar to yash chopra & salman khan shahrukh khan to saif ali khan mahesh bhatt saira banu karishma kapoor amrish puri randhir kapoor & several others had come to the thane jail as a mark of solidarity for sanjay dutt
Film director mukul anand had printed 1000 posters overnight declaring sanju we are with you controversial film producer and director mahesh bhatt went on to slam the law for jailing sanjay dutt how can law that applies to dawood ibrahim apply to sanjay dutt had then asked
Bollywood solidarity at thane jail was just start industry stalwarts had planned several strategies to evoke public sympathy for actor about 7 lakh were raised to print posters & media campaign in support of sanjay dutt music companies gave their hoarding space while theatres agreed to interrupt shows with slides in support of actor well coordinated campaign was run to enhance battered image of sanjay dutt by focusing on social causes he had been associated with in past
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