‘How can you deny the communal angle?’: Rabbi Shergill backs AR Rahman’s controversial claim | Bollywood News
5 min readHyderabadJul 2, 2026 09:26 AM IST When AR Rahman recently suggested that communal bias had seeped into India’s entertainment industry, it sparked a wave of reactions from across the music and film world. The latest voice to weigh in belongs to Rabbi Shergill, the artist behind hits like ‘Bulla Ki Jaana’ and ‘Tere Bin’, who says that whatever the precise context of Rahman’s remark, the concern it raises is impossible to brush aside in the current climate. ‘How can you deny the communal angle?’ Rabbi Shergill made the remarks during an appearance on The Life Savers Show, where he was asked to respond to Rahman’s comments. “I don’t know in what context he said it, but how can you deny that right now? How can you deny the communal angle?” he said. Rabbi then brought up teh term ‘propaganda cinema’ and claimed that a lot of film financing had gone in that direction. “I can’t specifically say it’s there in the music industry because I don’t live in Mumbai or interact with those …
