Abhishek Banerjee has been on a roll. The casting director and actor has been enjoying the success of his numerous projects released in the last six months including the web show Paatal Lok. Having seen the highs and lows in his career, the Stree (2018) actor is disappointed with the current scenario in Bollywood including Sushant Singh Rajput’s death investigation and the drug probe.

“I feel, we need to bring back love. Society is being driven by hate these days. We live in a time when everyone has an opinion. And at times, we should just sit back and listen to the other person. Aaj mahaul nafrat ka hai, and we should change the perception. We need to be loving and emphatic with each other,” he says.

Ask him about the image of Bollywood being tarnished and how it would affect the industry, he says, “We can’t forget the contribution art and cinema has made to society.”

He draws an analogy about sports and cinema. “I have heard so many stories about people stone pelting the houses of cricketers and later cheering for them. Society is fickle-minded. We don’t give time to people to prove themselves. We just judge and come to conclusions. As a society, we have to stop doing that,” he signs off.