After the call to boycott Aamir Khan’s Lal Singh Chaddha it now the turn of another biggie to face the brunt of the social media’s wrath.There is a call now to boycott the forthcoming crime thriller Vikram-Vedha a big-budget Hindi remake of the 2017 Tamil cop-and-gangster blockbuster of the same title starring Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan, the reason being Hrithik Roshan’s praise for Laal Singh Chaddha.
Now the producers of Vikram-Vedha , directed by the husband and wife duo Pushkar-Gayathri are in a panic mode. Would the boycott call affect their film?Damage-control is being planned with Hrithik and Saif promoting the film intensely in key centres of India before it releases on September 30.
R Madhavan who starred in the original Tamil version of the film says, “If the film is worth seeing nothing and no one can stop it from being successful.”