Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri reacted to the nation emblem controversy through his latest social media post. For the uninitiated, several opposition parties have attacked the Narendra Modi-led central government for “distorting” the national emblem by replacing the “beautiful and regularly reassuring” Ashokan lions with menacing and aggressive postures and immediately Change is demanded.
Re-sharing a tweet by lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan who criticized the change, The Kashmir Files director wrote, “#UrbanNaxals need a silent lion without teeth. So that they can use it as a pet.”
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#Urban Naxalites Need a silent lion without teeth. So that they can use it as a pet. https://t.co/85u7mnWBw0
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) 12 July 2022
In a separate tweet, he wrote, “The new #NationalEmblem on CentralVista has proved one thing that #UrbanNaxals can be fooled by just changing angles. Especially low angles.”
New #National symbol Feather #centralvista One thing has been proved that #Urban Naxalites One can only be fooled by changing the angle. especially low angles. pic.twitter.com/3ESuZ7uIuN
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) 12 July 2022
Responding to all the allegations by the opposition parties, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that those protesting the huge national emblem put up atop the new Parliament building “should be taken aback by the angle, height and scale while comparing the two structures”. effect” needs to be appreciated. “If one looks at the emblem of Sarnath from below it will look as calm or angry as is being discussed,” he explained in a series of tweets accompanying the images.
Coming to Vivek Agnihotri, the director’s last film The Kashmir Files released earlier this year and it made a huge impact at the box office. The film was a fictional representation of the 1990 exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir, the first major Bollywood hit of the year. The film starred Anupam Kher, Mithun Charavarthi, Pallavi Joshi and Darshan Kumar and received mixed reviews.
Agnihotri made her Bollywood debut with the remake of the Hollywood film ‘The Usual Suspects’ and named her version as ‘Chocolate’. He received the National Award for Best Screenplay-Dialogue for ‘The Tashkent Files’ which released in 2019. The director told that he has further ventured to make a film titled ‘The Delhi Files’, not much is known about the film yet.
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