Netizens troll Siddharth Anand as he defends low collections of 'Fighter' by saying 90% of India hasn't flown in planes

Fighter, which stars Deepika Padukone, Hrithik Roshan, and Anil Kapoor, has minted decent numbers at the box-office but the expectations post the historic success of War and Pathaan have not been met and amid this, the director Siddharh Anand has something to say. While speaking to Galata Plus, he defended the collections by saying that 90% of our country’s population hasn’t flown in planes or been to the airport, so we can’t expect them to know what’s happening in the air. Netizens began trolling the filmmaker for his statement and here are some reactions that dropped online:

Ayushmann Khurrana:
My movie didn’t do well because our country is Homophobic

Anurag Kashyap:
Movies are not doing well because people don’t have money to buy tickets

Fighter’s Director Siddharth Anand:
Our movie didn’t do well because 90% of Indians haven’t travelled in ✈️

— Shashank Shekhar Jha (@shashank_ssj) February 2, 2024

what a dumb take, “90% of our population haven't flown in plane so they could not understand masterpiece fighter” 🤡 pic.twitter.com/UHpXjJdbcY

— s. (@CinemaXCricket) February 1, 2024

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Fighter Director says movie flopped coz 90% people haven’t been to airports.

Animal Film was a blockbuster coz 90% people wake up in the morning and shoot 100s of people with a large machine gun. pic.twitter.com/byH1pk1vYu

— Gabbar (@GabbbarSingh) February 2, 2024

90% of the people don’t have cervical cancer so they didn’t believe Poonam Pandey - Siddharth Anand on why Poonam Pandey died and became alive again. pic.twitter.com/DJyPsc9azu

— indifferent (@unlimitedbanter) February 3, 2024

Days after repetitive comparisons between _Fighter_ and the Hollywood film, director Siddharth Anand recently broke his silence on the same, calling it nothing but “social media chatter” which only gains a lot of negativity. ‘We need to watch our films with more respect’ This is not the first time that the director, who also has films like War and Pathaan to his credit has spoken about the comparisons with Top Gun films.