Anurag Kashyap not to fly IndiGo until ban lifted on Kunal Kamra

Extending his support to comedian and political satirist Kunal Kamra, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has decided to not fly any of the airlines that have imposed temporary bans on the former.

Taking to Twitter on February 3, Kashyap - a strong critic of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - wrote how he had actually ditched an IndiGo flight and flown Vistara to reach Kolkata. Although this meant he had to wake up at 4 am and arrive at Kolkata seven hours early for an event he had been invited to, the filmmaker said he was fine with it.

The event organisers booked him an IndiGo flight (one of the four airlines to ban Kamra for invading the personal space of TV news anchor Arnab Goswami) to inaugurate a film festival. However, according to The Telegraph, Kashyap said: “I will wake up at 4 am but I will not fly IndiGo.”
He went on to say that he was aware that his action would not be of much consequence, but it was necessary he expressed his discontent with the “unreasonable move”. Kashyap said: “I told them I will not fly this airline because I thought the ban was very unreasonable… There is nothing I can do about it that would make much of a difference. But I wanted to register my dissent.”

He added: “I said I would not fly IndiGo. I want to fly Vistara. The IndiGo flight was on February 3 afternoon and the Vistara flight was in the wee hours. The organisers informed me that flying Vistara would mean waking up at 4 am. I said I am okay with that.”