Director General of Police Muktesh Chander’s connection with the world of music took a whole new spin on Twitter late in the evening on Tuesday when the senior cop took a dialogue from ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ to his heart and appealed to all Rafi fans to boycott the movie.
“Mohammed Rafi gaate nahi rote the,” Alizeh (Anushka Sharma) tells Ayan (Ranbir Kapoor) in ADHM which was released last week after a lot of controversy drummed up by Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena over the casting of Pakistani actor Fawad Khan.
Quoting the link of a news report from a national English daily newspaper in which Md Rafi’s son Shahid has criticised the director Karan Johar for the insulting comment about his father, DGP Chander has tweeted, “Md Rafi was 1 of the greatest singers of India & needs no certificate from any1. If u r Rafi fan boycott this movie.”
Interestingly, while Shahid is contemplating bringing the matter to the notice of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), the Director General of Goa Police Dr Muktesh Chander, a music enthusiast and Rafi fan, has called Rafi fans on Twitter to boycott the movie which has been released.
Another tweet says, “I am musically connected to Rafi Saheb & play his songs on flute. Any utterance against a great singer hurts his millions of fans like me.”
