Mumbai: Concerned with the current situation of the country, actor Saif Ali Khan is one among the few big names of Bollywood to voice against CAA and the unrest due to serial protests against the legislation.
Reacting to the ongoing nationwide protests, Saif said: "There are many things that give us a cause for concern, watching and wondering how where it will all end up."
Several Bollywood celebrities such as Farhan Akhtar, Parineeti Chopra, Richa Chadha, Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, Anurag Kashyap, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Hrithik Roshan and Swara Bhasker among others have voiced their disappointment over the amended Citizenship Act.
While the silence of the A-listers from the film industry is being questioned on social media, the Sacred Games star said everybody has a right to express their opinion or not.
"It is everybody's right to protest peacefully and everybody's right not to," he said.
Trying to understand the situation better, Saif said that he will make up his mind after he is well-informed.
"I would like the protest to be associated with exactly what I am protesting against. There might be a possibility that I will end up representing a different kind of protest. So I am not sure yet. Until I am sure what I am protesting against and whether it is going to be taken that way, I need to think more," he said, further adding, "there is so much being written in the press, there are so many things that give us concern about what we are reading."
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For the unversed, several protests broke out across the country after the Citizenship Amendment Bill was cleared by the Parliament.
The Citizenship Amendment Act seeks to grant Indian citizenship to refugees from Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian communities who have arrived from neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
The protesters claimed that the legislation is "unconstitutional and divisive" as it excluded Muslims.
