Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri is quite active on social media and he never minces his words. He is quite vocal about his political opinions. More often he also faces criticism for his words but that doesn't stop him. In a recent interview, Vivek said that he is not bothered by people trolling him. He also said that Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan have damaged the cultural fabric of India with their cinema.
People often dig out his old tweets and statements and troll him for his hypocrisy as his current views conflict with many statements from the past. On this, he said, “Anyone who digs out my old tweet and say ‘you used to say this 10 years ago’, I want to send them a packet of chocolates. I want to thank them. This just means I am changing. When you meet me for Delhi Files in 2024 or 2025, if I am still saying the same things, then shame on me. I cannot live a life where I am not changing every day. Every day is a new day with changed things. I don’t want to live a static life. That way, it is a good thing that people dig out tweets and I want to thank fact-checkers who dig out such old posts.”
Vivek who was a leftist in the past has now changed his political ideology. He said that with that change, his approach to cinema also changed.
He said, ''I changed with experience and age, particularly when I travelled across India and I saw the real India,” he says, adding, “Not that I was not exposed to that India but this was the first time I saw it as a filmmaker. I saw there are so many stories that nobody has ever told and that is the biggest crime filmmakers have committed in the country.”
'The Kashmir Files' director also spoke about how filmmakers have let Indian stories down. Targeting Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johar's cinema, he said, “After the advent of Amitabh Bachchan as a superstar – not the one from Deewar but one from Shehanshah – the cinema after that never told real stories. Especially Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan’s cinema, that has actually damaged the cultural fabric of India in a very disastrous way.'' So, that's why he it was important to tell real and honest stories.
