Javed Akhtar LASHES OUT At Shekhar Kapur For Saying He Is Afraid Of Intellectuals!
Lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar recently lambusted filmmaker Shekhar Kapur on Twitter after the latter posted that he was always in 'fear of intellectuals. He reacted strongly to Kapur's post.
Lyricist-writer
Javed
Akhtar
recently
lambasted
filmmaker
Shekhar
Kapur
on
Twitter
after
the
latter
posted
that
he
was
always
in
'fear
of
intellectuals'.
He
reacted
strongly
to
Kapur's
post
in
a
series
of
tweets
and
slammed
him
left,
right
and
centre.
Javed
even
wrote
that
Shekhar
Kapur
should
visit
a
psychiatrist
and
that
there
"was
no
shame
in
it."
It
all
began
when
Shekhar
Kapur
tweeted,
"Started
life
as
refugee
of
Partition.
Parents
gave
everything
to
make
a
life
for
kids.
Was
always
in
fear
of
intellectuals'.
They
made
me
feel
insignicant.
Small.
Then
suddenly
embraced
me
after
my
films.
I
still
fear
them.
Their
embrace
is
like
a
bite
of
snake.
Still
a
refugee."
-
(sic)
Started
life
as
refugee
of
Partition.
Parents
gave
everything
to
make
a
life
for
kids.
Was
always
in
fear
of
‘intellectuals’.
They
made
me
feel
insignicant.
Small.
Then
suddenly
embraced
me
after
my
films.
I
still
fear
them.
Their
embrace
is
like
a
bite
of
snake.
Still
a
refugee.
Upset
by
Kapur's
tweets,
Javed
slammed
him
in
a
series
of
tweets.
He
wrote,
"Who
are
these
intellectuals
who
embraced
you
and
you
found
that
embrace
like
a
snake's
bite
?
Shyam
Benegal
,
Adoor
Gopal
Krishna
,
Ram
chandra
Guha
?
Really
?
.
Shekhar
saheb
you
are
not
well
.
You
need
help.
Come
on
,
there
is
no
shame
in
meeting
a
good
psychiatrist."
-
(sic)
What
do
you
mean
by
still
a
refugee
Does
it
mean
that
you
feel
like
an
outsider
n
not
an
Indian
n
you
don’t
feel
that
this
is
your
motherland
.If
in
India
you
are
still
a
refugee
where
will
you
not
feel
like
a
refugee
,In
Pakistan?
Cut
this
melodrama
you
poor
rich
but
lonely
guy
He
further
wrote,
"What
do
you
mean
by
still
a
refugee
Does
it
mean
that
you
feel
like
an
outsider
n
not
an
Indian
n
you
don't
feel
that
this
is
your
motherland
.If
in
India
you
are
still
a
refugee
where
will
you
not
feel
like
a
refugee
,In
Pakistan?
Cut
this
melodrama
you
poor
rich
but
lonely
guy."
-
(sic)
What
do
you
mean
by
still
a
refugee
Does
it
mean
that
you
feel
like
an
outsider
n
not
an
Indian
n
you
don’t
feel
that
this
is
your
motherland
.If
in
India
you
are
still
a
refugee
where
will
you
not
feel
like
a
refugee
,In
Pakistan?
Cut
this
melodrama
you
poor
rich
but
lonely
guy
"You
introduce
yourself
as
neither
prejudiced
by
the
past
nor
afraid
of
the
future
living
in
this
moment
and
in
the
same
breath
you
say
you
are
a
refugee
of
partition
and
still
a
refugee
.
One
doesn't
need
a
magnifying
glass
to
see
the
contradiction."
-
(sic)
You
introduce
yourself
as
neither
prejudiced
by
the
past
nor
afraid
of
the
future
living
in
this
moment
and
in
the
same
breath
you
say
you
are
a
refugee
of
partition
and
still
a
refugee
.
One
doesn’t
need
a
magnifying
glass
to
see
the
contradiction
.
For
those
who
don't
know,
Kapur's
tweets
come
after
the
recent
letter
by
49
celebrities
to
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
asking
him
for
strong
action
against
mob
lynching.
Meanwhile,
another
rebuttal
was
penned
by
other
celebrities
like
Kangana
Ranaut
and
Prasoon
Joshi
for
the
selective
outrage.