‘Masaan’ director Neeraj Ghaywan slammed fellow filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri on Twitter for bringing up caste equations into everyday life, urging people to separate caste from their achievements.
In light of the unrest in Maharashtra over clashes between Dalits and Maratha groups, Agnihotri had tweeted an earlier experience where he narrated how the grandson of a Dalit leader was enjoying a ‘business class’ seat in an airlines.
Questioning the caste dynamics in society, Agnihotri in an attachment to his tweet, had written that the ‘pyramid is inverted’. He also pointed out to the fact that despite being a Brahmin, he had been relegated to a less comfortable space, while the Dalit leader in question was seated in the business class.
Responding to Agnihotri’s tweet, Ghaywan- a Dalit himself- tweeted:
Ghaywan said that while he was a Dalit, he had achieved all that he had in life, without using his caste identity. He further took a jab at Agnihotri, offering to give up his business class seat to the latter, the next time they were on the same plane.
Ghaywan’s shut-down response found him many admirers on Twitterverse.
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