A day after Bollywood A-listers went to court and sued some television news channels for using derogatory remarks in their coverage, director Vivek Agnihotri took to social media and said can public sue Bollywood for destroying Indian culture. However, actor and filmmaker Nikhil Dwivedi reminded him that they made Hate Story together,
Vivek tweeted: “Can the public sue Bollywood for destroying music, lyrics, language, art, creativity, social fabric and culture of India?” To which a Twitter user replied “Sir, yeh thoda zyada ho gaya. Why was Hate Story a hit? Because you made it or because people watched it? And by your own admission, the success of hate story brought in producers for you to make movies you believed in.”
To which Vivek replied saying, “Hate Story was made on the same exploitative and titillating template of Bollywood which believes the audience is dumb and somehow make fool of them. Producers came but I never quit all those films and reinvented myself.”
Can the public sue Bollywood for destroying music, lyrics, language, art, creativity, social fabric and culture of India?
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) October 12, 2020
Hate Story was made on the same exploitative and titillating template of Bollywood which believes the audience is dumb and somehow make fool of them. Producers came but I never quit all those films and reinvented myself.
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) October 13, 2020
Now, actor and filmmaker Nikhil Dwivedi took to Twitter and said, “Sirrrrrrr You and I made #HateStory together. Bohut trolling hogi hamari shant ho jaao (we will be trolled a lot, calm down).” Nikhil was featured in Hate Story along with Bengali actor Paoli Dam and Gulshan Devaiah, was quick to ask Vivek to not speak further on the film as they would soon be trolled.
Meanwhile, Bollywood industry A-listers come together and filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Delhi High Court against “media trials of Bollywood personalities”, for calling them names and painting the entire “Bollywood as criminals”. They took action against two TV channels — Republic TV and Times Now — along with their executive editors and other journalists to refrain from making or publishing irresponsible, derogatory, and defamatory remarks against Bollywood as a whole and members of the industry.
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