He says his objection is to the kind of cosmetic voices coming from glamourous sections of Bollywood which show armchair concern. “I come from Jammu, and I know what the reality is in that region. The barbaric rape and murder of an 8-year old is not as a simple a crime as it seems. The girl was an adopted child and she had come into a large inheritance. The truth will be out soon,” Ashoke says, adding that his advice to “half-baked glamour girls” who see this as their chance to be India’s Shabana Azmi and Meryl Streep is that if you don’t know the issue, don’t trivialise it.”