Anupam Kher Fumes At Ratna Pathak’s Statement Of ‘Acting Schools In India Are Shops’, Says ‘They Need To Rethink’

Legendary actors Anupam Kher has come face to face with Ratna Pathak Shah and Naseeruddin Shah as they claimed that acting institutes in India are shops. Anupam Kher recently reacted to the statement of Ratna Pathak when she said that the biggest tragedy in India is that there are no trainers of actors. She also claimed that everyone is running shops and emphasised that there are no acting training institutes but those are shops. Now, Kher has stated that it is her opinion and highlighted that they made this statement out of bitterness. 

In an interview with Pinkvilla, Anupam Kher said “That’s her point of view. I was also watching Naseer’s interview, he was also saying the same thing. Both of them are from National School Of Drama, will they call NSD a shop? So, sometimes a person says things out of bitterness or gets philosophical. It’s not important for me to justify what they think. They think it’s a shop and it is perfectly alright with me.”

He continued, “I thought I should open an acting school, where I would teach acting. People say that these are shops but I think they need to rethink about it because you are producing future generation of actors and it’s easy to make a statement like that. There are journalism schools, schools for dentists. Does Ratna goes to a dentist who didn’t go to a school? Why should they pass a judgment about somebody who runs an acting school with so much sincerity? But I am sure she isn’t talking about my school. Many people have opened these type of schools but those who run these schools know how much it is important to them.”