Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday (January 18, 2026) backed the music composer A.R. Rehman's claims, stating that there was "communal bias in Bollywood". Her statement comes when Rahman has been subjected to a lot of criticism over his recent interview in which he said that work from the Hindi film industry has slowed for him over the past eight years, attributing the slowdown to a "power shift" and hinting it "might be a communal thing."