Aamir Khan on intolerance: Wife Kiran Rao suggested moving out of India

Mumbai: On Monday, Bollywood super star Aamir Khan said that his wife Kiran Rao suggested that they should leave the country.

At an event, he said, “As an individual, as part of this country as a citizen, we read in the papers what is happening, we see it on the news and certainly, I have been alarmed. I can’t deny. I have been alarmed by a number of incidents.”

“When I chat with Kiran at home, she says ‘Should we move out of India?’ That’s a disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make. She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers every day,” added Aamir.

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Aamir Khan with wife Kiran Rao

“Dangal” star said, “That does indicate that there is this sense of growing disquiet, there is growing despondency apart from alarm. You feel why this is happening, you feel low. That sense does exist in me.”

“People who are our elected representatives, people who we select to look after us for five years, state or centre. when people take law into their hands, we look upon these people to take a strong stance, to make a strong statement, speed up the legal process, when we see that happening there is a sense of security but when we don’t see that happening there is a sense of insecurity, he said.

“A number of creative people, historians, scientists, increasingly had a certain feeling in them, which they felt they need to express. For creative people, one of the ways of expressing their dissatisfaction or their disappointment is to return their awards. I think that’s one way of getting your point across,” he said.

Bollywood actors Paresh Rawal and Anupam Kher took to their Twitter handles and wrote,