Eleven workers of Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena have been arrested for allegedly extorting money from Bollywood producer Ritesh Sidhwani for not hiring locals for a film shoot.
The film in question, Crooked, starring Abhishek Bachchan, reportedly needed foreigners to do some patch-up work, but the MNS workers allegedly demanded a 'fine' from Sidhwani, saying that locals should have been used.
All these two controversies came just a few months after Karan Johar's apologies over the colloquial usage of 'Bombay' over 'Mumbai' in his film Wake up Sid.
Which begs the question: Don't filmmakers have the right to do what's best for their films? Should political parties interfere in the process? Should Bollywood be left alone?