Republican Party of India (RPI) leader Ramdas Athawale urged producers to not cast actors who have been prosecuted in the drug angle. His statement comes as three top Bollywood actors have been questioned by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday over alleged links to drugs and drug cartels, and one director affiliated with a top production house has been arrested. None have been prosecuted yet, however.
Taking to Twitter, Athawale warned action against producers who will cast actors prosecuted in the NCB probe. He also urged for a fair probe and added that male actors should also be questioned and there should be no discrimination. “Producers should not include actors who have been prosecuted by NCB as drug addicts in their films; Otherwise, RPI will stop the shooting of their films and will not allow such films to be screened.” “The message is not only for female actors who are being questioned by the NCB on suspicion of using drugs. If there are names of male actors in it, they should also be questioned. There should be no discrimination between men and women. But the question of how the names of actresses are coming should not be ignored.”
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