{"id":456972,"date":"2026-02-04T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456972\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:09:09","slug":"heeramandi-actor-jason-shah-slams-growing-violence-in-films-like-dhurandhar-and-toxic-flags-religion-and-politics-influence-on-cinema-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456972\/","title":{"rendered":"Heeramandi actor Jason Shah slams growing violence in films like Dhurandhar and Toxic, flags religion and politics\u2019 influence on cinema | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Heeramandi Jason Shah<\/a>, who was recently seen as Officer Cartwright in Sanjay Leela Bhansali\u2019s Heeramandi, has expressed strong disapproval of the growing violence in mainstream cinema, citing films like Yash\u2019s Toxic and Ranveer Singh-starrer Dhurandhar. The actor also questioned the audience\u2019s sensibilities and their willingness to consume increasingly violent content.In an interview with Screen, Jason spoke about how religion and politics now heavily influence filmmaking, both in India and globally.<\/p>\n

‘Religion and politics have had a heavy play on movies’<\/p>\n

Sharing his thoughts, Jason said, \u201cReligion and politics have had a heavy play on movies, not just in India, but also around the world. You see all subliminal messages that are being put into movies. It’s because times have changed, cinema has been an art form that speaks to people, it connects to them, so if films don\u2019t evolve, people may lose interest.\u201dHowever, he also felt that something essential has been lost along the way. \u201cI feel the innocence of movies is lost. Would everyone go to watch Partner today? I don\u2019t think so. People want to see so much violence,\u201d he added.Referring specifically to upcoming films, Jason said, \u201cI was seeing the teaser of Toxic, which shows people where our minds have evolved to as producers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018I was shocked to see people enjoy the violence in Dhurandhar\u2019<\/p>\n

The actor further shared his surprise at the audience response to Dhurandhar, especially given its intense themes. \u201cI was shocked to see people enjoy the violence in Dhurandhar. Parents took their young children to watch the film,\u201d he said.He added that the film\u2019s political context also played a role in its reception. \u201cBut again, Dhurandhar was related to politics; it was a story about something that happened in India, a very serious subject, and people like to see other people\u2019s opinions on what they have created on this subject,\u201d Jason explained. <\/p>\n

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What\u2019s next for Jason Shah<\/p>\n

Jason Shah is best known for his role as Officer Cartwright in Heeramandi, which featured an ensemble cast including Manisha Koirala, Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Shaikh, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sharmin Segal Mehta, Farida Jalal, Fardeen Khan, Shekhar Suman, and Adhyayan Suman. The actor will next be seen in Vijay\u2019s political thriller Jana Nayagan. The film also stars Pooja Hegde, Bobby Deol and Mamitha Baiju in pivotal roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Shah, who was recently seen as Officer Cartwright in Sanjay Leela Bhansali\u2019s Heeramandi, has expressed strong disapproval…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,235369,63,73966,134,124094,235368,235364,235366,235367,184136,108195,235365],"class_list":["post-456972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-audience-response-to-violence","tag-australia","tag-dhurandhar","tag-entertainment","tag-heeramandi","tag-impact-of-religion-and-politics-on-films","tag-jason-shah","tag-jason-shah-slams-dhurandhar","tag-jason-shah-slams-toxic","tag-ranveer-singh-dhurandhar","tag-toxic","tag-yashs-toxic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}