SP leader Abu Azmi claimed that Islam doesn’t allow anyone to chant ‘Vande Mataram’ and their don't bow before anyone except Allah, not even before their mother.
Naseeruddin Shah showered praises for the Mughal king and said that he was soft-hearted, vulnerable man and he was also very passionate, sexually driven, ferocious, merciless warrior. "He must have been a great lover. I played him, to find the human being within this grandeur,” he said.