RJ-actor
Roshan
Abbas
and
writer
Aatish
Taseer
appealed
to
Bollywood
superstar
Shah
Rukh
Khan,
an
alumnus
of
the
Jamia
Millia
Islamia
University,
to
offer
support
to
the
students
of
his
varsity
against
the
police
action
amid
protests
against
the
Citizenship
Amendment
Act.
Many
from
the
film
fraternity
including
actors
Mohammad
Zeeshan
Ayyub,
Parineeti
Chopra,
Sidharth
Malhotra,
veteran
screenwriter
Javed
Akhtar,
filmmakers
Vishal
Bhardwaj
and
Anurag
Kashyap,
and
Hollywood
actor
John
Cusack
expressed
solidarity
with
the
youth
over
Sunday's
violence
inside
the
campus.
Many
on
social
media
also
questioned
the
silence
of
the
other
Khans
-
Salman
and
Aamir
-
and
Bollywood
heavyweights
like
actors
Amitabh
Bachchan,
Deepika
Padukone,
Ranveer
Singh,
Ranbir
Kapoor,
filmmakers
Karan
Johar
and
Ekta
Kapoor
on
Jamia
violence
which
triggered
nationwide
protests
against
the
contentious
Act.
Thousands
of
students
across
India
took
to
the
streets
demanding
a
probe
into
the
use
of
teargas
inside
the
Jamia
library
as
well
as
police
entering
the
campus
without
permission
from
university
authorities
on
Sunday.
Jamia
turned
into
a
war
zone
on
Sunday
as
police
entered
the
campus
and
used
force
to
quell
student
protests
against
the
Act.
Abbas
on
Tuesday
questioned
Khan's
silence
over
the
police
crackdown
on
the
varsity
students.
A
Hansraj
College
graduate,
the
54-year-old
actor
studied
for
a
master's
degree
in
Mass
Communications
at
Jamia,
but
left
to
pursue
his
acting
career.
"Say
something
@iamsrk
you
are
from
Jamia
too.
Who
has
made
you
so
quiet?
#IStandWithJamiaMilliaStudents," Abbas
tweeted.
The
British-born
Taseer,
whose
Overseas
Citizen
of
India
(OCI)
status
was
recently
revoked
by
the
Indian
government,
said
the
absence
of
Khan's
voice
from
the
film
fraternity
expressing
solidarity
with
the
Jamia
students
was
"terrifying".
"It's
a
scandal
that
@iamsrk
has
not
offered
one
word
of
support
to
his
Alma
Mater.
Since
we
know
that
you're
not
out
of
sympathy
with
them,
we
have
to
conclude
that
you're
terrified
of
this
government,
which
should
be
terrifying
for
the
rest
of
us," Taseer
tweeted
on
Monday.
According
to
the
amended
act,
members
of
Hindu,
Sikh,
Buddhist,
Jain,
Parsi
and
Christian
communities,
who
had
come
from
Pakistan,
Bangladesh
and
Afghanistan
till
December
31,
2014,
and
were
facing
religious
persecution,
will
not
be
treated
as
illegal
immigrants
but
given
Indian
citizenship.