The festive season is usually about celebration and reconciliation and all those things. But the Diwali release season for Bollywood has been marked by edginess, sharpness, allegations and controversy - and it goes on and on. Nothing festive about it. The upcoming films are being discussed for the personal and political takes of the people making them, hardly for their content. The problem is that sab ghoom phir ke isi issue pe aate hain. Film ke baare mein baatein hatt jaati hain. That's not good. That's terrible. We spend years in making films and suddenly the chatter has shifted to something else. In a very skewed way, Fawad Khan is dictating the discussion over your movie. Yes, and that...
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