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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…