Javed Akhtar, Raveena Tandon strongly react against re-opening of liquor and paan shops | Hindi Movie News

Yaaay for paan/gutka shops! Excellent, the spitting starts again! Wonderful!! https://t.co/KRyOv7HcKT

— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena) 1588355084000

On the other hand Javed Akhtar, who has always been very vocal about his views on social media, stated that opening of liquor shops could have ‘disastrous results’. “Opening liquor shops during the lock down will only bring disastrous results . In any case according to all the surveys nowadays domestic Violence has increased to a large extent .liquor will make these days even more dangerous of for women and children,” Javed Akhtar posted on Twitter.

@Deshsarwohpari 30th July 1991was the last day of my drinking .

— Javed Akhtar (@Javedakhtarjadu) 1588405544000

And when one social media user expressed that it looked like Javed Akhtar had quit drinking, the lyricist replied, “30th July 1991was the last day of my drinking.”