Eminent personalities Shabana Azmi, Nagesh Kukunoor, Amol Gupte, Govind Nihalani, Manmohan Shetty and Anjum Rajabali among others were present there to support him. Shabana said, "In Chinese, the word for crisis and opportunity is the same. We will turn this crisis into an opportunity." Kukunoor said, "The Government would be setting a really bad precedent if they didn't support the Institute