Nowadays, the minute you log into Twitter, you will find at least one Bollywood movie against which boycott calls have been made. While these are unnecessary negative movements against the film industry, there are many other genuine criticisms you will find that are being made against recent films.
Back in 2020, when the nepotism debate was at its peak, Kareena Kapoor had said, “The audience has made us, no one else has made us. Same people pointing fingers are the ones who have made these nepotistic stars right? Aap jaa re ho na film dekhne? Mat jao. Nobody has forced you.”
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Recently, Arjun Kapoor too took a dig at the people calling for the boycott of Bollywood films and said that the film industry made a “mistake” by staying silent all this while. He added that their decency has been taken advantage of.
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NDTV quoted him saying:
“I think we made a mistake by being silent about it and that was our decency but people have started taking advantage of that. I think we made a mistake by thinking that our work will speak for ourselves. You know you don’t always need to get your hand dirty but I guess we tolerated it a lot and now people have made this a habit. We need to come together and do something about it because what people write about us or the hashtags that trend, are far away from reality.”
Amidst all this, something that was said by Shahrukh Khan recently has gone viral wherein he expressed that people need to respect their audience as they “understand everything”.
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Indian Express quoted him saying:
“After working for so many years on film stories, with film people (celebrities), people who are watching films matter. As you wake up in the morning you should have respect for them (audience) and not look down upon them saying the audience is silly they don’t understand my films, I think they understand everything.”
Several people agreed with him and lauded SRK for his pure class. Here’s what they said:
Do you agree with what King Khan has to say?