CAA Row: Vivek Agnihotri Calls Farhan Akhtar ‘ISI, Jehadi’; Gets Into An Ugly Banter With Anurag Kashyap, Swara Bhasker

Most Bollywood celebrities have come out in support of the student protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA). However, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has denounced the protests, and has been waging wars on multiple fronts against many celebrities who have supported the Act as well as the protests.

After wars of words on social media with filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and actress Swara Bhasker, Agnihotri on Wednesday launched a below-the-belt attack on actor-filmmaker-singer Farhan Akhtar, over what the latter conceded was an erroneous post.

It all began with Akhtar’s post on Wednesday morning. He wrote: “Here’s what you need to know about why these protests are important. See you on the 19th at August Kranti Maidan, Mumbai. The time to protest on social media alone is over.”

The problem was that Akhtar’s post accompanied a map of India where parts of Kashmir are excluded.

Although Akhtar soon clarified with a fresh tweet that the map was “inccurate”, and apologised for the same, Agnihotri was in an unsparing mood. He posted to compare Akhtar to ISI, Jehadis and ISPR agents.

He tweeted: “Pic 1/2: posted by ISI, Jehadis and ISPR agents. Pic 3/4: posted by one of the leaders of Bollywood. Same. Same. Only God knows who is feeding whom.”

Also on Wednesday, Agnihotri’s social media battle with filmmaker Kashyap, which had started the day before, continued.

It started when Agnihotri posted a tweet taking a dig at the protests at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University, which reads: “3000 students. 30,000 protestors. Who supplied 27,000 dummy students?”