It has been just a few hours since the release of Prashant Neel’s magnum opus Saalar and the opinions and breakdowns have already started. Since Salaar is the next big thing from Prashant Neel after his KGF series, there are a lot of questions and a lot of excitement regarding Salaar. Who is Salaar? What is the connection to KGF?
While the public opinion is mostly overwhelmingly positive, a certain someone seems to have been bothered by the Salaar teaser. And that someone is none other than The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri.
Within a few hours of the release of the teaser, director Vivek Agnihotri took to Twitter to voice his opinion in the form of a series of tweets.
His first tweet read out, “People aren’t born violent. Your children’s minds are conditioned by glamourizing violence in popular literature, cinema, and politics by industry leaders who should be actually inspiring young minds for peace.” While this might seem like a fairly harmless tweet, it is the next few tweets that will help better understand what he is trying to say.
His next tweet read, “Now glamourizing extreme violence in cinema is also considered talent. Promoting nonsense cinema is considered a bigger talent. Promoting a non-actor as biggest star is considered the biggest talent. And assuming the audience is super-dumb is mother of all talent.”
He also praised Tom Cruise’s upcoming Mission Impossible film while saying this:
“Extraordinary. Experiment. Innovation. Engineering. Execution. The world of extraordinary action cinema –
I hope someday we build something like this instead of just building a star image.”
And for the final confirmation, “We have also made such grand films with great engineering and powerful stories. Sholay, for example. But now everyone believes dumbing down the audience, creating marketing hype and nonsense action with loud sound can make a film hit. Looking at Indian BO, it’s true also.”
When these tweets are read in isolation, they might appear harmless. But it is very clear from the timing that it is a dig at the makers of Salaar.
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