Aamir Khan-starrer ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ has become the most talked topic ever since it was released. The movie has opened below expectations in terms of box office collections as it has received mixed reviews. Meanwhile, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has slammed the ‘dons of Bollywood’ for sabotaging small films and not letting them succeed.
Vivek Agnihotri recently was the talk of the town after the release of his film ‘The Kashmir Files’. The movie was based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits.
Vivek Agnihotri tweeted, “When Good Content Small films are sabotaged, boycotted by the Dons of Bollywood when their shows are taken away by Multiplexes, when critics gang up against small films… nobody thinks of 250 poor people who worked hard on that film. #Bollywood” “Why nobody from Bollywood raises voice when the Kings of Bollywood boycott, ban & destroy careers of so many outsider actors, directors, writers? The day common Indians get to know the ARROGANCE, FASCISM & HINDUPHOBIA of the Dons of Bollywood, they’ll drown them in hot coffee,” slamming the cancel culture targeting big stars of Bollywood.
It can be assumed that this was a reply to Kareena Kapoor’s latest interview with a media channel where she said “The fact is that they shouldn’t boycott this film, it’s such a beautiful film. And I want people to see me and Aamir on screen. It’s been three years, we’ve waited so long. So, please don’t boycott this film, because it’s actually like boycotting good cinema. And people have worked so hard on it; we’ve had 250 people work on this film for two-and-a-half years.”
Vivek Agnihotri also tweeted recently about middle aged male actors romancing younger female actors. In his tweet, he wrote, “Forget the quality of a film, when 60 yr old heroes are desperate to romance 20/30 yr old girls, photoshopping faces to look young, there is something fundamentally wrong with Bollywood. ‘Looking young & cool’ has destroyed Bollywood. And only one person is responsible for this.”
