Bollywood industry is a very old industry and from time to time this industry has shown how organized it is. Just a few days ago, Bollywood stars united on the Maldives controversy and everyone boycotted Maldives. Such unity of Bollywood stars has been seen before also. One story is even 38 years old.
In 2023, many incidents happened in the world of entertainment at the international level. But the incident that attracted worldwide attention was the Hollywood stars’ strike. This strike was very much discussed in the entire Hollywood industry was seen going on strike. A similar protest had also taken place in the Bollywood industry about 4 decades ago. This strike took place in the year 1986. This was a strike against the Maharashtra government in which many Bollywood stars including Raj Kapoor and Dharmendra participated.
Bollywood stars on strike, what was the matter?
Talking about the matter, in the year 1986, the Maharashtra government started imposing very high taxes on movie tickets. In such a situation, the entire Bollywood came in support of the public and everyone took to the streets and went on strike to raise the ticket prices. Rarely has such a scene been seen when big names of Bollywood had united for such a cause and came out on the streets. It included many Bollywood stars including Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Dharmendra, Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Randhir Kapoor.
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Production of 200 films halted
The Bollywood industry also suffered a lot due to this strike. The production of about 200 films was stopped for a few days and about 1.5 lakh people stopped working. This strike had also attracted the attention of foreign countries during that time and this news had spread all over the world. A committee of actors was formed to calm this matter. In this, Amitabh Bachchan and Sunil Dutt were elected president. The government had reduced the annual tax on tickets from Rs 15 crore to Rs 5 crore. However, some artists were not happy with this strike. After this, it is said that there was mutual discord between many artists.
