Mukesh Khanna Angry Over Ranveer Singh Taking Up Role of Shaktiman

Mumbai: Mukesh Khanna, who played the role of India’s first superhero, Shaktimaan is angry over Ranveer Singh being chosen to play Shaktiman in a proposed motion picture.

Mukesh Khanna shared a YouTube video and an Instagram post, in which he disapproved Ranveer Singh being cast as Shaktimaan.

In his Instagram post, Mukesh Khanna put up a collage picture of himself and Ranveer Singh and said, “Pura social media mahinon se is rumour se bhara pada tha ki Ranveer karega Shaktimaan. Aur har koi naaraz tha ise lekar. Main chup raha. Lekin jub channels ne bhi elaan karna shuru kar diya ki Ranveer sign ho gaya hai. To mujhe muhn kholana pada. Aur maine bol diya ki aisi image wala vyakti kitna bhi bada star kyon na ho Shaktimaan nahin ban sakta. I have put my foot down. Ab Aaga aage dekhiye hota hai kya ?? (There are rumours on social media that Ranveer Singh would portray Shaktimaan. And everyone was angry about it. I remained silent. But when channels started announcing that Ranveer has been signed, then I had to speak up. And I have said it that no matter how big a star he is, a person with such kind of image can never become Shaktimaan. I have put my foot down. Now let’s see what happens next).”

In his YouTube post, Mukesh Khanna slammed Ranveer’s nude photoshoot for Paper magazine and said such acts are against Indian culture. Targeting Ranveer Singh, he said, “If he feels comfortable with nudity then he should go to countries where he can do nude scenes any every third scene.”

The veteran actor also added, “I have told the producers, that your competition is not with Spider-Man, Batman, Captain Planet. Shaktimaan is not just a superhero, he has also become a super teacher. Now, the actor who takes on the role should have the quality that when he speaks, people will listen. There are big actors, but their image comes in the middle.”