Naseeruddin Shah as Bollywood’s most blistering polemicist: Hate him, love him, you can’t ignore him

Naseeruddin Shah ko gussa kyun aata hai? Plenty of reasons. In no particular order, his pet peeves include the hypocrisy of parallel cinema, mediocrity in Hindi films, Bollywood’s sycophancy towards the powers-that-be, a tense communal climate, the Taliban’s rise, Anupam Kher and Virat Kohli. Shah, who was hospitalised with a bout of pneumonia earlier this year, certainly knows how to cook up a storm. In better spirits now, the 71-year-old thespian has gone out on a limb to reflect on the central issues of the day, both relating to his…

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