Eminent director Hansal Mehta of Scam 1992 fame was angry at how the efficient systems of India’s government stifled him and his daughter Kimaya Mehta, causing her to struggle to get an Aadhaar card.
Forums like Twitter have become an arena where Mehta and other dissatisfied clients have reported the instances of his daughter’s visits to the Aadhaar center in Andheri East, where the senior manager rejected the application on one or all of the following excuses. Mehta said,
“She has to travel from Gurgaon to Aadhaar office in Andheri East in rains, reaching very early, yet the senior manager there sends her back home saying the services are closed but has to search for her on the internet to find UIDAI has said”
before tagging the UIDAI official handle in his post.
Engaging a user’s comment that clearly referenced Mehta’s widely acclaimed show Scam 1992, the filmmaker was dismissive, saying, “Really? Is getting the government official to put his stamp slightly higher a compliance parameter? Stop this BS. ”
Mehta, who is not a powerful man in society but is rated as a common middle-class Indian citizen, is convinced that he is worthy of better treatment from the powers that be. He has been frustrated by bureaucracy and dealing with inquiries many times. This is typical of what many citizens have to go through.
This comes after Mehta’s recent support for his son’s first OTT show, Lootere, which was recently released. The producer’s next film as a director is The Buckingham Murders, with Kareena Kapoor in the lead role of a detective, which is planned for release in September.
