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Earlier, Kangana Ranaut made a statement saying 99% of Bollywood celebrities consume drugs.
To this allegation, Raveena Tandon had a response which she tweeted out yesterday.
Replying to senior lawyer, Mahesh Jethmalani’s tweet, where he says not a single person contradicted Kangana’s statement, Raveena breaks the silence on Bollywood’s behalf saying a few bad apples cannot spoil a basket.
She tweets, “Globally, 99 % of judges, politicians, babus, officials, cops are corrupt. This statement cannot be a generic description for all. People are intelligent. They can differentiate between good/ bad. Few bad apples cannot spoil a basket. Likewise, our industry also has the good and the bad.“
Director Ram Gopal Varma also responded to Jethmalani’s tweet yesterday saying, “Though I belong to the same fraternity, I am as baffled as u ..And their silence also extends to them being called rapists, killers, mafia etc etc.”
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta also had similar views to share as he also defended the industry in a series of tweets on the 31st of August.
“I’ve spent nearly 23 years making movies in Bombay. Not every party has been scintillating but some I’ve attended have been usually fun, full of camaraderie, bonding with colleagues and mostly great conversations over booze, cigarettes and some great, great food.” Mehta tweets.
He also adds in another tweet that Bollywood is an industry of artists, not debauches.
“Just like Bollywood is a generic term that I disown I think any generalisation about the film industry being mostly about drugs, sex and scandals is unfair. Also the industry being unfair and mean is also a most unfair generalisation. This is an industry of artists not debauches.”
“Like any industry, there are rotten apples, there are mean people, there are bad experiences. But these pale in comparison to the kind of friendships, acceptance and love I have found through all these years. I’m an outsider but I’ve never let myself feel left out,” Hansal Mehta stated.
