The actor has launched a broadside against the top BJP leadership, and is now campaigning against the party in the Karnataka assembly elections.
Mangaluru: Actor Prakash Raj claims that Bollywood has stopped offering any role to him since he started criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The National Award-winning actor told ThePrint that since October last year, when he first criticised the Prime Minister for his “chilling” silence on the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, the Hindi film industry has sidelined him.
Raj has launched a broadside against the top BJP leadership, and is now campaigning against the party in the Karnataka assembly elections.
Lankesh, who edited a Kannada weekly, was shot dead outside her house in Bengaluru by unidentified assailants in September last year. In March, a special investigation team (SIT) of the state police arrested a person allegedly linked with a radical Hindutva outfit in connection with her murder. Investigations are on.
“There is no problem (with the film industry) in the south, but there has been no offer from the Hindi film industry since I started speaking out,” Raj, a long-time friend of Lankesh, said. However, he says he’s not worried, because he has “enough” (money).
“Gauri’s death disturbed me a lot… She was asking questions. When she was silenced, I felt guilty. Did we leave her alone in her fight? The more I…
