Whoever thought that IIFA would act as a platform for freedom of speech and a commentary against censorship? But this year?s IIFA awards did just that. Okay, granted it?s nothing as momentous as when Hollywood took on McCarthyism. But Bollywood is famous for never wanting to upset any government which is in power at the time. And Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor, who were the Energiser bunny hosts of IIFA 2015, are unlikely heroes for freedom of speech. (You can almost imagine Dev Anand and Kishore Kumar?s ashes swirling in shock in the Ganga, as I write this.) But heroes they were.
