Suniel Shetty is one of the most admired and loved actors that we are blessed to have in the Hindi film fraternity. It’s been many years now that Suniel Shetty has been doing good work in Bollywood and no wonder, over the years, he’s built good enough credibility for himself to woo hearts. Although Suniel Shetty has not been active to a great extent in movies off-late, he’s doing his best whenever he can. The latest example where we got to see him do great work is none other than MX Player’s Dharavi Bank. The web project marked Suniel Shetty’s reunion with Vivek Oberoi after a long time post they worked together in ‘Shootout At Lokhandwala’. Although he doesn’t do much active work in movies, his words hold a lot of relevance and credibility even today.
As far as negative trends in Bollywood is concerned, one trend that off-late created a lot of issue when it comes to the industry’s image was the drugs trend. Not just that, a lot of people even went on the extent of boycotting Bollywood and starting the trend negatively over there. Well, recently, he was seen making an important appeal to Yogi Adityanath. He was quoted by The Indian Express saying,
“The hashtag that’s going on, Boycott Bollywood, yeh ruk bhi sakta hai aapke kehne se (it can stop if you say). It is important to spread the word that we are doing good work. One rotten apple is everywhere, but just because of that you can’t call the whole industry rotten. Today people think that Bollywood is not a good place, but we have made such good films here. I was a part of one such film too, when I did Border. I have been a part of many good films. We have to come together and work towards how we can get rid of the Boycott Bollywood hashtag. We have to figure how we can stop this trend.”
He further added,
“Today, if I am Suniel Shetty, it is because of UP and the fans from there. If you take the lead, this can definitely happen. It is of great importance that this stigma that is on us is gone. It is a very strong emotion for me. Dukh hota hai bolne me ke humaare pe yeh stigma hai (it pains me to tell that there is this stigma on us) because 99% of us are not like that. Hum din bhar drugs nahi lete, hum galat kaam nahi karte (We don’t do drugs whole day, we don’t do wrong work). Hum achhe kaam se jude hai (We are associated with good work). Bharat ko agar bahar ke desho se kisi ne joda hai toh woh hai humaara music (Bollywood music has connected India with the world), and our stories. So, Yogi ji if you take the lead and talk to our beloved Prime Minister about it, it will make a huge difference.”
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