Divya
Director Rohit Shetty‘s most recent film Sooryavanshi, starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif in the leads, has become the biggest blockbuster to hit theatres since the pandemic.
The film has made a total of Rs 208 Crore at the box office, worldwide.
The film caused a bigger buzz when fans and the audience realised that Ajay Devgn and Ranveer Singh made cameo appearances as Singham and Simmba respectively. However, Rohit answered a burning question in a recent interview, one that many viewers seemed to be talking about.
Addressing the whole ‘good Muslim bad Muslim’ narrative that is a part of the film, Rohit says, “If I ask you one question, Jaykant Shikare was Hindu a Marathi, in this universe second came a Hindu Godman was there, then in Simmba a Maharashtrian again. In these three negative forces were Hindu. Why isn’t that a problem?“ He also added that when he made Hindu negative characters, nobody questioned him.
Apart from this, he also explained why a theatre release was opted for Sooryavanshi. “It was a long battle, it was not easy to hold back, especially when you were getting good offers from OTT. But I was like Sooryavanshi needed a theatre release. Maybe it was another film, it would have been different,” Rohit says.
