Overview
- YouTuber Dhruv Rathee condemned the trailer’s graphic violence, likened it to ISIS beheading videos, and urged the censor board to intervene.
- Rathee acknowledged a reversal in his stance by saying he was wrong to have previously praised the violent film Gangs of Wasseypur.
- Actor Ranvir Shorey rebuked Rathee as "wrong most of the time" and accused him of trying to sabotage a film, with both trading barbs on X.
- At the Mumbai launch event, Arjun Rampal declined to discuss the opening torture sequence that has drawn strong reactions online.
- Director Suparn S Varma publicly defended Aditya Dhar’s film, arguing critics apply harsher standards to Hindi cinema than to comparable foreign releases.