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00:00No, it wasn't that, what we said that no minister or no government official will be on stage

00:13because this is the festival which is being organized without any government funding,

00:21so there is no strings attached to that and this was the first festival which was designed

00:28as the festival done by the film industry itself, so there was no reason for any government

00:38official or the minister to be on the stage which naturally did go well with the government

00:46and we got a message from the government that unless you honor the ministers and ask them

01:00to be on stage, we won't allow the festival to be on.

01:06I still remember, I have written in detail about this but I will quickly recapture that,

01:13there was a, since we got this message from the government, there was an emergency meeting

01:22by all the trustees that we were and we were discussing how to handle this situation, a

01:30phone call came to Kiran Shantaram who was also a co-trustee and he received the phone

01:41and he stood up and yes sir, yes sir, I knew exactly who was calling him and he said you,

01:51why don't you talk to Amol about this and handed over the phone to me, it was Mr. Balasaheb

01:58Thackeray, the senior most and he said, why are you insulting our ministers, I said no,

02:08we are not insulting them at all, then I explained to him how this festival is without

02:14any government funding to begin with and I said all the first five rows have been kept

02:22for the ministers, we are honoring them, on stage there will be only film personalities,

02:32it was being inaugurated by Mrinal Singh and Shyam Benegal, such people were on stage

02:40and I said, I told Balasaheb that you as an artist yourself, I think you will appreciate

02:50this much more than criticize it, he immediately said oh, I didn't know about this fact and

02:58in 15 minutes we got a message from the Mantralay that yes, please go ahead and keep the seats

03:07in the front row as you have decided, are you sure you didn't say that you don't want

03:14to adulterate the ambience, but that's not the first time that you took issue with Balasaheb

03:21Thackeray, there was a second incident where he felt he'd been…