'Another Richa Chadha': Vivek Agnihotri Slams An Activist Who Called Mani Ratnam 'Islamophobic'
The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri is the buzzing bee on the internet. Unlike many other netizens, Vivek has a piece of mind about anything and everything. When lately he slammed actress Richa Chadha for her ¡®Galwan Says Hi¡¯ tweet, he has now called out another activist who accused veteran filmmaker Mani Ratnam of being islamophobic.
An activist who has now removed her account on Twitter accused the PS1 director of showing Muslims as terrorists and that got Vivek furious.
In a series of tweets, she wrote, ¡°The first movie in South India which portrayed Muslims as terrorists was ¡°Roja.¡± In her next follow-up tweet, she added, ¡°Maniratnam started the trend. Roja was an agenda movie produced by Balachander, a soft Sanghi. ARR worked in that and every similar movie made by Mani. Roja,Bomba,Dil se etc.¡±
¡°Has anyone who¡¯s questioning Ilayaraja on his work in ThevarMagan posed the same disdain and questions to ARR? On why did he work in Islamophobic movies? Which created a big impact to Muslim lives in TN in the 90s? We left him because he is feudal caste muslim? How Convinient No?¡± her now-deleted tweet read.
Slamming the activist, Vivek called her another kind of Richa Chadha. He wrote, ¡°She would have been satisfied only if Mani Rathnam had shown Brahmins as terrorists in Kashmir. For such crazy people nothing matters except for their hate and victim card. Another kind of Richa Chadha.¡±
Vivek's Richa Chadha context came from the reference to the Fukrey actress allegedly mocking the martyrs of the Galwan clash that took place in 2020.
Several celebrities including Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher and even the film body Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) condemned?Richa's insensitive tweet. Actor Ranvir Shorey also slammed the Fukrey actress and wrote on Twitter, ¡°Making jibes at the sacrifices that our armed forces make for our country just to score brownie points with dislodged politicians, or to fit in their ¡°intellectual¡± cliques, is plainly daft and irresponsible as a citizen. Forever grateful to our jawans.¡±
Actor Kay Kay Menon, best known for his stint in Haider and The Ghazi Attack also seemed upset with Richa¡¯s tweet and wrote, ¡°Our brave men& women in uniform,put their life on the line to keep every citizen of our Nation safe &secure! Least we can do is to behold love, respect & gratitude,in our hearts, towards such valour!¡±
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