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On 14th September, Javed Akhtar expressed shock over a reel in which Anand Ranganathan spoke about Maulana Abul Kalam Azad urging Muslims to be extremely hard against Kafirs but extremely sympathetic among Muslims. Akhtar said that the quoted statement was attributed to Maulana Azad.

“Gods change with time,” Akhtar said, arguing that belief systems evolve as human understanding grows.

Vanga asked Javed Akhtar, "Did he tell the same thing to Farhan Akhtar when he was producing Mirzapur?"

The makers of Animal rebuked Javed Akhtar for alluding to the film's extraordinary box office performance as "dangerous."

Javed Akhtar said Lord Ram is a part of India's culture and civilisation and asked people at Deepotsav program in Mumbai to chant 'Jai Siya Ram'.

"This one parades as an atheist but when it comes to ummah the Muslim inside screams and comes rushing out!" one X user slamed Javed Akhtar

The original case was filed by advocate Santosh Dubey after Javed Akhtar compared the RSS with Taliban in a 2021 interview.

"Once Pakistan was formed, the Hindu majority did not seek an exclusivist Hindu Raj with no place for minorities," Atal Bihari Vajpayee had said.

For a beleaguered nation that clearly did not learn its lesson in the past 76 years, the 'Aman ki Asha' facade cannot hide the truth that peace is impossible with Pakistan.