Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhat, Ranbir Kapoor, Other Bollywood Stars Meet PM Modi

The delegation, which is a mix of directors and actors, has been organised by filmmaker Karan Johar

Updated on: 10 January 2019 6:32 pm

Weeks after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Bollywood producers and discussed issues faced by the industry leading to the reduction in GST on film tickets by the government, major Bollywood stars such as Ranveer Singh, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan landed in the capital city on Thursday for a meeting with the Prime Minister.

Following the meeting, producer Karan Johar shared a picture from the meet on his Instagram saying "meeting the Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi today was an incredible opportunity. As a community, there is a huge interest to contribute to nation building."

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Powerful and timely conversations can bring about change and this was one of what we hope will become a regular conversation. Meeting the Honorable Prime Minister @narendramodi today was an incredible opportunity. As a community, there is a huge interest to contribute to nation building. There is so much that we want to do. And can do and this dialogue was towards how and what ways we can do that. When the youngest country (in demography) joins hands with the largest movie industry in the world, we hope to be a force to reckon with. Together we would love to inspire and ignite positive changes to a transformative India. The film industry would also like to send a huge thanks for the GST reduction in movie ticket prices that was implemented recently! Thank you so much for your time, Sir!
A post shared by Karan Johar (@karanjohar) on Jan 10, 2019 at 4:24am PST

The delegation, which is a mix of directors and actors, has been organised by Johar, the source added.

The line-up from Bollywood also includes directors Rohit Shetty and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, producers Ekta Kapoor and Mahaveer Jain, actors Rajkummar Rao, Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar and Sidharth Malhotra.

After the December 19 meeting with PM drew flak on social media for not having any female representation on the panel, inclusion of names such as Alia and Bhumi is a step up.

Actors-producers Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Karan Johar, Sidharth Roy Kapur, Ritesh Sidhwani and others were censured by internet users for not including any women in the panel.

PTI