Reported By: Shrishti Negi
Last Updated: March 07, 2023, 07:05 IST
Ranbir Kapoor confronted boycott calls throughout the launch of Brahmastra: Part I – Shiva.
Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor has spoken out about how the Hindi movie business has turn into a soft-target for trolls through the years.
Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor holds nothing again, speaking with News18 Showsha about how the Hindi movie business has been impacted by an “anti-Bollywood narrative” which started by a “certain section” of media throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
After Sushant Singh Rajput’s surprising dying in 2020, Bollywood was subjected to extreme criticism for alleged “favouritism,” “nepotism” and “discrimination” against outsiders. The anger soon translated into hashtags like ‘boycott Bollywood’ and ‘ban Bollywood’ taking over top trends on Twitter. Things got even uglier for the industry when several Bollywood celebrities including Sushant’s then-girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty were brought in for questioning by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) over alleged drug abuse and procurement claims.
Two years later, the controversial hashtags made their return when Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha and Ranbir Kapoor starrer Brahmastra: Part I – Shiva were releasing in theatres. While Ranbir believes that there are still a lot of people who “love Hindi cinema and equally fight for it”, there’s a sure part which has been spreading a “narrative of lies” in opposition to the business.
“I don’t think everybody does it,” says Ranbir. “But I’ve been seeing this since a pair of years that all of the sudden there’s an anti-Bollywood narrative has began publish the Covid-19 pandemic which hasn’t stopped but whether or not it’s evaluating it with South movie business…”
Of late, there has been a constant debate around the box office numbers of Bollywood films and South movies and how the latter has beaten several big Hindi releases when it comes to collections. And, Ranbir says he finds these comparisons “silly” because the Hindi movie business is extraordinarily proud of the success of South movies.
“Hindi cinema may be very proud of movies like KGF, RRR and Baahubali. We all are impressed by these movies and we additionally wish to do movies that attain such a big viewers, however I feel lots of it’s media guilty. There have been sure media members throughout that interval who have been going with this propaganda of ‘boycott Bollywood… Bollywood ye hai, wo hai… medication and all of that to type of disgrace Bollywood,'” points out the actor.
He further adds, “I’ll just say that our job is to entertain you but ‘aapko film nahi dekhni aap mat dekho na… why are you starting a narrative of lies?’ It’s not just the actors but there are so many people who work in this industry toh aap unke paet pe kyu laat maar rahe ho (why are you destroying their livelihood?) I found it really silly and stupid and now since I have been doing marketing, I’m asked this question repeatedly in press conferences so it’s like ‘aap mere paet pe laat maar rahe ho mere industry pe laat maar rahe ho toh what do I say?’ They read something on social media then ask me and when I give my opinion it gets misconstrued. It’s all silly and stupid.”
On the work entrance, Ranbir Kapoor is presently gearing up for the discharge of Luv Ranjan’s Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar, which additionally stars Shraddha Kapoor.
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