Subhash Ghai's Twitter Appeal to SRK, Big B and Media is...

Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Subhash Ghai photographed in Mumbai

Highlights

Mr Ghai tweeted to Shah Rukh, Mr Bachchan to not call Hindi cinema as Bol
He also appealed to media and industry colleagues
Someone scoffed us as copycat and named us as Bollywood, he tweeted

Mumbai: Veteran filmmaker Subhash Ghai has appealed to Hindi film icons like Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan as well as the media to avoid referring to the industry as Bollywood on Twitter on Wednesday.

The 71-year-old filmmaker tweeted:

My sincere appeal to our industry n @SrBachchan @imsrk_ n media not to allow hindi cinema named as Bollywood. pic.twitter.com/34RmpF0jIa
— Subhash Ghai (@SubhashGhai1) June 29, 2016

Some one scoffed us as copy cat n named us as Bollywood n we were silent n lost d dignity hindi cinema of india pic.twitter.com/BlBH79PVAC
— Subhash Ghai (@SubhashGhai1) June 29, 2016

Even if name-Bollywood is an unavoidable brand now. We still can attach with words like HINDI CINEMA n call it as BOLLYWOOD HINDI CINEMA
— Subhash Ghai (@SubhashGhai1) June 29, 2016

Ghai, who has films like Kalicharan, Karz, Hero, Ram Lakhan, Saudagar and Khalnayak to his credit.

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