prime minister narendra modi met members from the film fraternity in a special event hosted at his official residence at lok kalyan marg on saturday the event was organised to talk about changewithin an initiative that was launched to mark the 150th birth year of mahatma gandhi and how the film fraternity can help popularise the teachings and philosophy of gandhi through their projects as part of the initiative a short film directed by rajkumar hirani was screened at the event the twominute film featured actors including aamir khan alia bhatt salman khan kangana ranaut ranbir kapoor sonam kapoor ahuja vicky kaushal and shah rukh khanshah rukh khan aamir khan kangana ranaut jacqueline fernandez apart from filmmakers including rajkumar hirani ekta kapoor boney kapoor aanand l rai and raaj shaandilyaa were part of the interaction with the pm in a video message on social media aamir khan shared it was a wonderful interaction that we had with pm modi today it was lovely to hear his thoughts and he was very warm and inspiring srk added i feel it is important that we create work and send out message in an engaging and entertaining manner this kind of interaction that we had today was very niceduring the interaction the pm said that as india celebrates its 75th independence day in 2022 the entertainment industry should showcase the inspiring stories of the countrys freedom struggle from 1857 to 1947 and the nations growth story from 1947 to 2022 a statement from his office read also at the eventbhushan kumar imtiaz ali anurag basi raaj shaandilyaa ayan mukerji luv ranjan jayantilal gada dinesh vijan ajay bijli and sajid nadiadwala were also at the event recalling his interaction with chinese president xi jinping at mamallapuram recently he said jinping had highlighted the popularity of indian films such as dangal in china your work has reached all corners of the world on the part of the government i am happy to help in any way to ensure maximum impact of your creative initiatives said modisharing more details about the interaction director raaj shaandilyaa told us it was a very encouraging and inspiring interaction for all of us the pm spent around two hours with us and he was very welcoming of new ideas that were shared with him pm modi appreciated all those filmmakers who have already been doing great work in popularising the ideas of mahatma gandhi he encouraged others to make more such films and also said the government will always help the film industry in every way possible pm modi also appealed to those present at the event to visit the dandi kutir museum and the statue of unity in gujarat btown celebrities share their experience boney kapoor films also highlighted swachh bharat drivewe were a total of 30 people from the entertainment industry who met pm narendra modi he is a fantastic speaker and can hold your attention there is a lot of warmth his way of addressing people is