Ayan Mukherjee’s Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva is the first part in the trilogy, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Amitabh Bachchan, Mouni Roy and Nagarjuna. The movie was released on the big screens amid brutal boycott calls and wild protests. The movie, however, has been doing fairly well in the box office charts. Brahmastra has already earned Rs 225 crores in gross collections worldwide.
The director of Kashmir Files, Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, shared a report claiming that the theatres have lost Rs 800 cores due to Brahmastra. Reacting to the report, Vivek Agnihotri took to his official twitter account and wrote “Problem is everything runs on fakeness in Bollywood. And nobody is answerable. No industry can survive which invests 0% in R&D and wastes 70-80% of its money on stars.”
Vivek Agnihotri is known for his thought-provoking tweets on pressing issues in the Bollywood industry. Despite being a filmmaker himself, he has never hesitated to talk about the dark secrets of the industry. On August 21, he penned down an open letter, titled ‘Bollywood an inside story’. A part of the letter reflected the dark secrets of Bollywood. The letter read ‘It’s humiliation & exploitation which shatters tender dreams, hopes and belief in any kind of humanity. One can survive without food, but to live without respect, self-worth and hope is impossible. No middle-class youngster grows up ever imagining being in that situation. It hits so hard that instead of putting up a fight, one gives up.’
Vivek Agnihotri did not only call Bollywood fake but also went ahead and took another brutal jibe at Ranbir Kapoor’s character in the movie Brahmastra. On Saturday, the director of Kashmir Files took to his official Twitter account and posted a cryptic tweet amid his controversy with the Brahmastra team. His tweet read “Never fool around with Shiva.” The tweet featured a still of Anupam Kherr dressed as lord Shiva, from the movie Kashmir Files.
The tweet from Vivek Agnihotri has left the netizens divided. Some of them support the viewpoint of the director, while others call him a sore loser for being jealous of Brahmastra’s enormous success.