Naseeruddin Shah feels Hindi cinema loves to laugh at others' miseries

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Naseeruddin Shah shared his feelings on how Hindi cinema has been consistently using stereotypes to portray communities and make fun of others..

The veteran actor felt that films have been encouraging people to make fun of communities like the Sikhs or the Parsis, but when it comes to laughing at ourselves, people get sensitive..

He was a part of a panel discussion at a cultural event last December in New Delhi along with wife, actor Ratna Pathak Shah, where he spoke about the generalisation of humour...

A video of the actors speaking at the panel was shared on Twitter and Naseeruddin expanded on how Hindi films have been following a pattern of stereotyping from the early days of cinema..

Ratna also shared that Hindi films used broad physical stereotypes like a fat woman, a thin man or a drunken man to create humour..

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