Overview
- Following the November 18 trailer launch, Dhruv Rathee condemned the footage as excessively violent, likening it to ISIS beheadings and urging the CBFC to intervene.
- Rathee cited the opening shot depicting a man tortured with wires threaded through his skin as evidence of gratuitous gore.
- Users resurfaced his past praise for Gangs of Wasseypur, and Rathee acknowledged a shift in his views, saying he was wrong then about the impact of such films.
- Actor Ranvir Shorey defended director Aditya Dhar, accused Rathee of trying to sabotage the film, and traded barbs with him on X.
- The online back-and-forth drew mixed reactions through the day, while the Ranveer Singh–led film remains slated for a December 5 theatrical release.