Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri took to Twitter and reacted to Anurag Kashyap’s latest ‘mob is uncontrolled now’ remark. Anurag mentioned these phrases after Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staff to cease commenting on movies. Anurag had mentioned that the PM is simply too late. Also learn: Vivek Agnihotri responds to Anurag Kashyap’s ‘serious research kar lena’ comment
Sharing a news article on Anurag Kashyap‘s phrases, The Kashmir Files director who is usually seen at loggerheads with the DevD director, tweeted, “Audience is ‘mob’ now? Wow! Wow! Wow!”
Recently, PM Modi, on the second day of the BJP’s nationwide government assembly, recommended that pointless remarks on irrelevant points equivalent to motion pictures put the celebration’s growth agenda on the backburner, reported news company PTI.
Responding to it, PTI quoted Anurag saying, “If he had said this four years ago, it would have made a difference. Now, I don’t think it’ll make a difference. It was about controlling their own people. Things have gone out of hand now. I don’t think anybody will listen to anyone. He was at the trailer launch of his upcoming movie Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat, starring Alaya F.
“When you keep silent, you empower prejudice and also you empower hatred. It has now bought a lot empowered that it’s a energy in itself. The mob is uncontrolled now,” the filmmaker additional mentioned. Earlier many politicians got here ahead objecting Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone’s Pathaan track Besharam Rang. Among them had been Madhya Pradesh residence minister Narottam Mishra and Ram Kadam who criticised Deepika’s saffron bikini. Many others had been additionally towards the movie and its track, for allegedly hurting non secular sentiments.
Meanwhile, filmmaker Ashoke Pandit, the president of the Indian Film and Television Directors’ Association (IFTDA), got here out in help of PM Modi’s assertion to the BJP celebration staff. He informed Indian Express, “If the PM snubs his own people and tells them to shut up and not talk nonsense against the film industry, which is not their area, for mere publicity, it is a big boost of confidence for the industry. That the PM of the country is with you. The signal goes to not only the politicians, but even people from the media, our own industry itself.”