Lyricist Javed Akhtar responded to Pakistani actress Bushra Ansari's comments that Akhtar should "stay quiet like Naseeruddin Shah" and that he "can't even get a house on rent in Mumbai". "Who's she to decide when I should speak?" he said in an interview with The Lallantop. "Of course! Shabana and I are sleeping on the streets these days," he joked.