Netflix India’s popular show Sacred Games 2 is directed by two filmmakers - Anurag Kashyap and Neeraj Ghaywan of Masaan fame. While Anurag handles the track featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Neeraj is responsible for Saif Ali Khan’s story in the show.
On Sunday, Neeraj had to respond to a Twitter post by a user named Gabbbar who randomly criticised a lynching scene that features in the second season of Sacred Games. A Twitter user compared the scene in Sacred Games 2 of the lynching of a young Muslim to an item number, citing that the scene had no connection with the story.
However, Neeraj soon replied to the user saying that, “You didn’t have the courage to put up even a solidarity tweet when a real lynching has happened. And now to hide your lack of narrative understanding, you equate someone’s courage to put it up on a global platform as ‘item number’? Amazing!”
When the user put up an old tweet from 2017 in his defence, where he states that “Lynching is wrong,”, Neeraj went on to explain how difficult it is to show something critical like the act of lynching with your name on it and how it hurt when someone compares it to something as frivolous as an item number.
Now Gabbbar said that he felt hurt for being accused of being a lynch-supporter, to which Ghaywan had the perfect answer.
Both of them finally left the discussion after Ghaywan said that he was open to criticism but wouldn’t take misinformation about his intent in filming a scene. “Before you twist my words again: I don’t have problems with criticism. Absolutely fine if it doesn’t work for you. Fine if you don’t know the directorial credits. What is not acceptable is that your are misinformed about our intent and appropriating it to ‘item numbers’,” tweeted Ghaywan.
Other users also came to Neeraj’s defence and explained how exactly the lynching scene made perfect sense in the development of the plot in Sacred Games 2.
Sacred Games 2 is currently streaming on Netflix.
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