Why The Web Is Hitting ‘Dislike’ On Alia Bhatt’s Sadak 2 Trailer

New Delhi:

The trailer of Sadak 2, starring Sanjay Dutt and Alia Bhatt, launched on Wednesday morning and by late afternoon it had acquired 1,000,000 ‘dislikes’ on YouTube – to be clear, dislikes and never likes. The trailer of a giant movie, particularly one filled with marquee names, usually will get many extra likes than it does dislikes; this has been reversed for Sadak 2 and it’s uncommon sufficient to be comment-worthy. On the time of penning this, there have been 1.eight million dislikes to 1,18,000 likes on YouTube. The Web, it seems, is making good on its declared intention of boycotting Sadak 2.

Watch the trailer of Sadak 2 right here:

This supposed boycott dates again to the weeks after actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise on June 14, allegedly by suicide. After the 34-year-old star of Chhichhore was discovered useless at dwelling in Mumbai, hypothesis that he was pushed to the brink partially by the alleged remedy he acquired from Bollywood ‘insiders’ prompted an enormous outpouring of anger on-line in opposition to sure celebrities, amongst them Alia Bhatt. Alia, as Twitter reminded everyone, had spoken dismissively of Sushant on the chat show Koffee With Karan. Her proximity to filmmaker Karan Johar – rumoured to have joined different producers in shutting Sushant out of movies – additionally triggered a backlash, amid renewed criticism of nepotism and favouritism within the movie trade.

Unsurprisingly, Alia Bhatt trended for a lot of the day on Twitter, which has proved greater than as soon as that it could actually maintain a grudge endlessly. The truth that Sadak 2 is directed by Mahesh Bhatt has additionally contributed to the surge of social media hate. Mr Bhatt is thought to be near actress Rhea Chakraborty, who’s being questioned within the investigation into Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise. Rhea, who was relationship Sushant, is accused by his household of illegally transferring cash amounting to Rs 15 crore from the actor’s account and driving him to suicide.

Sushant Singh Rajput’s final movieDil Bechara  launched final month – the trailer of the movie acquired a whopping 10 million likes on YouTube. Different just lately launched trailers have additionally been upvoted many extra occasions than down – Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana’s Gulabo Sitabo, Vidya Balan’s Shakuntala Devi and even Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Woman, starring Janhvi Kapoor who was additionally named on the checklist of ‘star children’ social media stated it might boycott.

Sadak 2 is a sequel to 1991 hit Sadak, additionally directed by Mahesh Bhatt and starring his daughter Pooja and Sanjay Dutt. Sanjay Dutt, who reprises his function as a driver named Ravi within the new movie, introduced a day earlier than the trailer launched that he was taking a break for medical remedy. Sadak 2, wherein Alia Bhatt stars as a younger lady engaged on exposing a godman, will launch later this month on Disney+Hotstar. The movie additionally stars Aditya Roy Kapur, Makarand Deshpande and Gulshan Grover.

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