When director Shonali Bose went to watch Afwaah at PVR Cinemas in Juhu earlier this week, little did she expect a fracas for not standing up when the national anthem was played before the movie. The filmmaker says she was called “disgusting” and “unpatriotic” by a patron in the theatre. Two days ago, she posted a video on social media, putting forth her response to the episode by quoting Rabindranath Tagore’s famous lines: “Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action, into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.”

Shonali Bose