Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri responded to Kareena Kapoor she requested fans not to boycott her movie Laal Singh Chaddha for the sake of around 250 individuals, who worked hard on the movie. Vivek took to his Twitter account to respond to Kareena’s statement in a similar tone.
In an interaction with Siddharth Kannan, Kareena 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 (Khan) 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.”
Pointing at how not many from the film industry supported his movie, The Kashmir Files, after a section of individuals boycotted it, Vivek Agnihotri penned on Twitter, “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.”
He further wrote, “Why nobody from Bollywood raises voice when the kings of Bollywood boycott, ban and destroy careers of so many outsider actors, directors, writers? The day common Indians get to know the arrogance, fascism and Hinduphobia of the dons of Bollywood, they’ll drown them in hot coffee.”
He also responded to a tweet about the low occupancy for Laal Singh Chaddha shows in theatres. Reacting to one such tweet, Vivek penned, “Who has single-handedly led Bollywood to such mess and humiliation? Fun fact is that his/it/their/them’s kingdom is still growing while destroying everyone else in Bollywood. Time to smell coffee. Anyone wants to do an honest, analytical, academic podcast on this subject?”
