A large demonstration was held on January 6th night at Carter Road in Bandra where the film industry of Mumbai came out in strength in solidarity with the JNU students and faculty. Earlier, the BJP’s attempt to throw a party for the film industry in a five-star hotel in Mumbai had turned out to be a fiasco. Among those who participated in the demonstration were Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, Anubhav Sinha, Swara Bhasker, Hansal Mehta, Swanand Kirkire, Rekha Bhardwaj, Taapsee Pannu, Zoya Akhtar, Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal, Dia Mirza, Reema Kagti, Raj Kumar Gupta, Rahul Bose, Sudhir Mishra, Neeraj Ghaywan, Saurabh Shukla, Gauahar Khan, Shweta Tripathi, Kunal Kamra. Other film personalities like Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Deepika Padukone, Anil Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Twinkle Khanna, Sonam Kapoor, Meghna Gulzar, Pooja Bhatt and others also spoke out against the violent attack on JNU students and faculty. The programme ended with the collective rendering of the song “Hum Dekhenge” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz.