‘Kehna Kya Chah Rahe Hai?', Internet Fails To Decode Vivek Agnihotri’s Mixed Remark On Pathaan

From being loved for The Kashmir Files to being hated for the same, Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has come a long way. The director who earlier slammed Deepika Padukone's looks in Pathaan's song Besharam Rang has now taken a U-turn. Interestingly, this time it's a mixed reaction and is leaving the internet with thoughts.

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Vivek in a recent interview credited SRK's charisma as one of the major reasons for Pathaan's success.

He said on the Carvaka Podcast, "Pathaan worked purely because of the charisma and fan following of Shah Rukh, the way he marketed it and the way he took it on his shoulders that ‘it is my film and I am responsible for it’, which is pretty good. I also think that some credit should also go to people who were making stupid statements against the film and people who were unnecessarily protesting and asking for a boycott.”

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“These are different people from the regular ‘boycott Bollywood gang’. There is one kind that is always saying ‘boycott Bollywood’ for everything for many years. These were new players in the market and there was no need for them to do this. There were some violent factors who were saying we will burn this and burn that and that, I think, also contributed to this. And of course, our media channels."

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Switching immediately after which, Vivek quoted, ‘Audience will go back to their fundamental beliefs that audience is an idiot and you just need star power and a lot of marketing hype to make a film successful.” “Aajkal films political campaign banne bhi lagi hain (these days films are a political campaign)”, he said.??

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He went on to add, “After Pathaan, I have a feeling that everybody will fall back to the same old system because Pathaan’s success is the success or in today’s environment I would choose the word victory. It’s the victory of the age-old, exploitative, nepotistic top-heavy system.”

Vivek this morning defended himself and still left us wondering which side has he chosen over Pathaan’s success!

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Pathaan at the domestic box office has crossed over Rs 475 crores and stars Deepika Padukone and John Abraham other than SRK. It is a Siddharth Anand directorial which released on 25th January 2023 globally. Vivek’s statements have left the netizens wondering what he wants to say and they have dropped their reactions. See some here:-

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