Hyderabad, May 15 -- Naseeruddin Shah has once again said what many in the industry would rather avoid. At a recent event where he was invited as a guest, the veteran actor spoke about Bollywood, its long history of stereotyping communities, and how Hindi cinema has repeatedly used religion and identity for jokes, drama and easy character writing.

In the viral clip, Naseeruddin Shah can be heard asking, "Which religion did Bollywood not make fun of?" He then went on to call Hindi films "the masters of stereotyping."

Taking a sharp dig at the way different communities have been represented on screen, he said Bollywood has made fun of Sikhs, Parsis and Christians, while Muslims were often written in a fixed mould. According to him, a Musl...