SRK and KJo’s cinema destroyed cultural fabric of India’ claims Vivek Agnihotri
SRK and KJo’s cinema destroyed cultural fabric of India’ claims Vivek Agnihotri
Ever since his film “The Kashmir Files” was not even considered for nomination for the Oscars, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has been hitting the headlines with his comments and criticisms on films.
His recent comment is over the films produced by actor Shah Rukh Khan and filmmaker
Karan Johar adding that the duo have destroyed the very cultural fabric’ of India.
Vivek Agnihotri has often been saying that he is a transformed man. He refers to his current self as Vivek Agnihotri 2.0, where he has a less left-leaning political thought and more realistic approach to filmmaking.
In a recent media interaction with the media, the filmmaker spilled the beans on this change in ideology on why he remains unfazed to trolls by people.
For many years, Vivek was a self-confessed leftist while he firmly sights on the right of the political spectrum now.
People every now and then dig out his old tweets to accuse him of hypocrisy as his views today are in conflict with many statements from the past.
Reacting to it, The Kashmir Files director says, “Anyone who digs out his old tweet and say ‘you used to say this 10 years ago’, he wants to send them a packet of chocolates. He wants to thank them. This just means he is transforming. When you meet him for Delhi Files in 2024 or 2025, if he still says the same things, then shame on him. He cannot live a life where he is not changing every day.
Every day is a new day with changed things. He doesn’t need to live a static life. That way, it is a good thing that people dig out tweets and he wants to thank fact-checkers who dig out such old posts.
On what prompted this change in ideology for him, Agnihotri paints a dim view of leftist thought and says, “Change happened because he lived his life as a leftist for a long time, for much of his life. But when you have kids, you understand a lot of things. He was thinking what will these kids take away from India when they grow up and if they go out. And he realised that we are a country of the world’s greatest philosophy because of which we have survived for so many centuries. But because of leftist ideology, you start hating everything about your country. Wherever he was going in the world, he was hating everything. He decided it was time to get grounded, rooted, and real. That changed him.
According to the filmmaker with that change, his approach to cinema also changed a lot. The man who once made Chocolate and Dhana Dhan Goal has shifted tonally to more hard-hitting dramas now. He changed with experience and age, particularly when he travelled across India and saw the real India,” he adds that not ot that he was not exposed to that India but this was the first time he saw it as a filmmaker.
He saw that there are so many stories that nobody has ever told and that is the biggest crime filmmakers have committed in the country.
As he talks on how filmmakers have let Indian stories down, Agnihotri reserves special disdain for Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan’s brand of cinema. He went on to say that after the advent of Amitabh Bachchan as a superstar not the one from Deewar but one from Shehanshah, the cinema after that never told real stories. Especially Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan’s cinema, that has actually damaged the cultural fabric of India in a very disastrous way. So, he felt it was important to tell reveal the real, honest stories.
News Edit K.V.Raman
