{"id":295430,"date":"2025-05-02T02:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/rajinikanth-calls-pahalgam-attack-barbaric-and-merciless-calls-pm-modi-a-fighter-who-will-bring-peace\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T02:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:03:16","slug":"rajinikanth-calls-pahalgam-attack-barbaric-and-merciless-calls-pm-modi-a-fighter-who-will-bring-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/rajinikanth-calls-pahalgam-attack-barbaric-and-merciless-calls-pm-modi-a-fighter-who-will-bring-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajinikanth calls Pahalgam attack \u2018barbaric and merciless\u2019, calls PM Modi a fighter who will bring peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Rajinikanth calls Pahalgam attack \u2018barbaric and merciless\u2019, calls PM Modi a fighter who will bring peace\" title=\"Rajinikanth calls Pahalgam attack \u2018barbaric and merciless\u2019, calls PM Modi a fighter who will bring peace\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"pcl-full-content\">\n<p>Veteran star Rajinikanth on Thursday termed the Pahalgam terror attack \u201cbarbaric and merciless\u201d and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a fighter who would bring peace to Jammu and Kashmir.<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/entertainment\/bollywood\/waves-summit-2025-live-updates-rajinikanth-shah-rukh-khan-mohanlal-deepika-padukone-akshay-kumar-9974985\/\" class=\"\"> Addressing the inaugural WAVES Summit,<\/a> the pan-India actor said many people had told him the government might postpone the four-day event because of \u201cunnecessary criticism\u201d as it focused on entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I was confident that this event will definitely happen because of my confidence in Prime Minister Narendra Modiji,\u201d he said. The World Audio Visual &amp; Entertainment Summit (WAVES) brings together top Bollywood and southern stars as well as industry leaders and political personalities.<\/p>\n<p><ev-engagement group-name=\"contentLogin\"\/><ev-engagement group-name=\"myNotification\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ev-meter-content ie-premium-content-block\">\n<p>ALSO READ: <a title=\"Hania Aamir, Mahira Khan, Ali Zafar\u2019s Instagram handles blocked in India; Pak entertainment handles blocked on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/entertainment\/bollywood\/hania-aamir-mahira-khan-ali-zafar-instagram-handles-blocked-in-india-pakistan-entertainment-handles-blocked-9976248\/\" class=\"\">Hania Aamir, Mahira Khan, Ali Zafar\u2019s Instagram handles blocked in India; Pak entertainment handles blocked on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"osv-ad-class\" style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;height: 375px;margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPM Modi is a fighter. He will meet any challenge. He has proven it, and we have been seeing it in the last decade,\u201d <a rel=\"noamphtml\" class=\"keywordtourl\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/rajinikanth\/\">Rajinikanth<\/a> said. The 74-year-old actor added that the prime minister will handle the Kashmir situation \u201cbravely and gracefully\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(He will) bring peace in Kashmir and glory to our country. I\u2019m extremely happy to be here, and it is my privilege to be a part of WAVES\u2019 moment. and my heartiest congratulations to central government,\u201d Rajinikanth said. WAVES will integrate films, OTT, gaming, comics, digital media, AI, AVGC-XR, broadcasting, and emerging tech and seek to present itself as a comprehensive showcase of India\u2019s media and entertainment prowess.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"subscriber_hide\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/subscribe\/upsc-special\/?utm_source=IESITE&amp;utm_medium=Banner&amp;utm_campaign=Inarticle\" title=\"Festive offer\" data-ie-event-category=\"Event_banner\" data-ie-event-action=\"Article\" data-ie-event-label=\"Desktop\"><img class=\"lazyloading\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" data-lazy-type=\"lazyloading-image\" src=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2025\/04\/UPSC_banner_640x70.jpg\" alt=\"Festive offer\" width=\"640px\" height=\"99px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The summit, which aims to unlock a USD 50 billion market by 2029, expanding India\u2019s footprint in the global entertainment economy, comes shortly after a terror attack in the upper reaches of<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/ahmedabad\/ahmedabad-tourist-captures-pahalgam-attack-on-video-taken-on-a-zipline-ride-9971327\/\" class=\"\"> Pahalgam in Kashmir killed 26 people, mostly tourists.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '444470064056909');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/entertainment\/bollywood\/rajinikanth-calls-pahalgam-attack-barbaric-and-merciless-calls-modi-a-fighter-who-will-bring-peace-9976753\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran star Rajinikanth on Thursday termed the Pahalgam terror attack \u201cbarbaric and merciless\u201d and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a fighter who would bring peace to Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing the inaugural WAVES Summit, the pan-India actor said many people had told him the government might postpone the four-day event because of \u201cunnecessary criticism\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[619],"tags":[2601,98913,5191,1187,72,46825,1686,2910,53315,3166,10695,18260,74975,229739,229197,229740],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295432,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295430\/revisions\/295432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}