Bollywood folk react to the FTII controversy

Updated On: 20 August, 2015 08:40 AM IST | | Shaheen Parkar and Sonali Joshi Pitale

<p>In a pre-dawn swoop on the FTII campus, police arrested five students on charges of rioting and holding the institute director hostage in his office for nearly six hours. Bollywood folk react to the snowballing controversy...</p>

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Ever since Gajendra Chauhan, best remembered for his role as Yudhisthir in the mythological television series Mahabharat (1988–90), was appointed chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), the country's premier film school has been embroiled in a controversy that is thickening by the day.

Policemen escort the arrested FTII students to court, which eventually granted them bail. pic/PTI