âNever Originalâ: Why Lucky Ali Slammed Javed Akhtar Over His Remarks on Muslims

Singer Lucky Ali recently made it to the headlines after calling out Javed Akhtar on one of his old comments on Hindus and Muslims. A social media user shared an excerpt from Akhtar’s speech where he told Hindus “not to be like Muslims.”

The O Sanam singer responded to this tweet and slammed the lyricist and accused him of not being original. He wrote, “Don’t become like javed akhtar, never original and ugly as fa*k (sic).”

Don’t become like javed akhtar, never original and ugly as fack…

— Lucky Ali (@luckyali) October 20, 2025

However, he later shared another Tweet where he clarified that he did not call Akhtar ugly. He wrote, “what I meant was that arrogance is ugly…. it was a mistaken  communique’ on my part….  monsters may have feelings  too and I apologise if I hurt anyones monstrosity…….(sic)”

Check out his tweet:

what I meant was that arrogance is ugly…. it was a mistaken communique’ on my part…. monsters may have feelings too and I apologise if I hurt anyones monstrosity…….

— Lucky Ali (@luckyali) October 22, 2025

Lucky Ali’s tweets received a mixed response from netizens. While some took his side, others slammed him for reacting without watching the full video of Javed Akhtar.

What did Javed Akhtar actually say?

The video was taken from an event where the writer-lyricist was speaking on stage as part of a panel. He was discussing the iconic ‘Yunki ye kaun bola’ scene from Sholay. Akhtar said, “In Sholay, there was a scene where Dharmendra hides behind Shiv ji’s murti and speaks, and Hema Malini (thinks) Shiv ji is talking to her. Is it possible to have a scene like that today? No, I will not write a scene (like this today). Were there no Hindus in 1975 (when Sholay released)? Were there no dharmic people? There were. As a matter of fact, I’m on record, I’m not saying it right here. Raju Hirani and I were in Pune in front of a big audience, and I said ‘Don’t become like Muslims. Make them like yourself. You are becoming like Muslims’. It’s a tragedy.”

A social media user took out the quote, ‘Don’t be like Muslims’ and posted it, attributing it to Javed Akhtar. This prompted a reaction from Lucky Ali.

Javed Akhtar is yet to respond to the singer.

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