‘Pathaan’ director finally talks about ‘boycott calls’. Director Siddharth Anand eventually opens up about the film receiving boycott calls before its theatrical release.
Speaking about the same, Anand disclose that team Pathaan was not at all scared to the boycott calls, neither it affected the film.
“We were not scared. We knew that there was nothing objectionable in our film.”
“When we were in Spain, I chose that costume randomly. We never gave it too much thought. The colour was looking nice. It was sunny, the grass was greener and the water was blue and the orange colour was looking good. We thought when the audience would watch it they would understand that our intent was not wrong”, added the director.
In the lead of the Pathaan release, most of the people were requesting for the ban of the film demand that it has offensive content that is pain the feeling of the Hindu community. A major movement was received over Deepika Padukone’s orange saffron that she wore in song Besharam Rang.
Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika and John Abraham’s action-packed film took over the box office by a disturbance. The film earned over INR 1000 crore globally.
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In the meantime, director Siddharth Anand is presently working on his next film Fighter with Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone, reports Indiatoday.