While we got to know the views of many Bollywood celebrities on the controversy that was created after Sonu Nigam's tweets over the use of loudspeakers for azaan in the morning hurt the religious sentiments of the Muslims.
Veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar was attending the Dadasaheb Phalke Exxcellence Awards 2017 where he was awarded too and when asked to give his reaction to the whole issue he said that worshipping God and praying to him is good, but it should not disturb others.
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Akhtar, who was awarded the "best poet, lyricist and scriptwriter" in Bollywood at the Awards here on Friday night, was asked about singer Sonu Nigam's comments demanding a ban on loudspeakers during azaan.
"As far as I think, no matter if it's a Masjid, Mandir, Church or Gurudwara, whatever is the place, do your prayers, but it shouldn't disturb anyone else," Akhtar said.
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Besides Javed, some of the other celebrities who were given awards at the gala included Pankaj Kapur, Urvashi Rautela, Hema Malini, Anup Jalota, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Divya Khosla Kumar, Phalguni Pathak, Jubin Nautiyal, Kirti Kulhari, Juhi Chawla, Usha Nadkarni, Piyush Mishra, Rana Daggubati, Shoojit Sircar and Saiyami Kher.
-With inputs from IANS