Siddharth Anand’s Fighter did not take off the way it was intended to. The film starring Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone had a non-holiday release, hitting the screens on January 25. The film was released exactly a year after Anand released Pathaan with Shah Rukh Khan in the leading role. Unfortunately for the filmmaker, Fighter did not recreate the magic of Pathaan at the box office. Fighter opened to a box office collection of Rs 24.60 cr. When the film teaser and trailer was released, people dubbed it as a copy of the Hollywood movie Top Gun. The film-maker addressed this criticism in a recent interview.
Speaking with Galatta Plus, Siddharth Anand explained, “Yes, we have had instances of taking inspiration blatantly from other films. Anything that you do now is (considered) a cheap copy of it (Hollywood movies). We as an audience have lost respect for our films, which I feel is very sad. Because Fighter is about fighter jets, the instant analogy was that it’s Top Gun. I think eventually when you saw the trailer, you realise that there is nothing to do with Top Gun.”
He added, “But the only reference point is Top Gun so they’ll say that ‘oh they have copied Top Gun’. It’s all social media chatter, which is really out there to put your work down and negativity gets a lot of traction. So you want to do that (seek attention on social media using negativity) so that people like, repost your comments or comment on it. It creates chatter because if you say something good, it never gets traction or any sort of comments. Negativity gets you attention. So the easiest thing is to put somebody else’s work down.”
Fighter is currently playing at the theatres. Besides Hrithik and Deepika, the film also stars Anil Kapoor, Karan Singh Grover, Akshay Oberoi and Sanjeeda Shaikh.
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